The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued a notice to the Delhi Government and directed to file a status report by December 4, on the plea of Jessica lal murder case convict Manu Sharma who has sought a month-long parole to give llB semester exams.
Appearing for Sharma, Sudhir Nandrajog submitted that his client also needs to attend a two-day personal contact programme from December 11 and to maintain social ties as he got married recently.
Sharma, who is undergoing a life term in the murder case, has completed a post-graduate diploma in Human Rights and now is pursuing a Bachelor’s in law course from Annamalai University.
His plea also said he has been in prison for 13 years now and during this period he has been helping inmates and their children by providing them education and other study material.
Sharma was earlier granted 30-day parole on December 26, 2014, to appear for his post-graduation exams with a condition that he would keep away from the area around the residence of Jessica and her family members.
Sharma, son of former Union Minister Venod Sharma, was awarded life imprisonment by the High Court in December 2006 for killing Jessica lall in 1999.
The trial court had acquitted him, but the Delhi High Court had reversed it and the Supreme Court had upheld the high court’s decision in April 2010.
lall was shot dead by Sharma after she had refused to serve him liquor at the Tamarind Court restaurant owned by socialite Bina Ramani at Qutub Colonnade in south Delhi’s Mehrauli.