The Supreme Court has ordered a compensation of 25 lakh to the MP government in the case of keeping the convict in a rape of 4 years and 7 months in a rape case. The accused in this case of Sagar district was sentenced to seven years. But, even after the completion of the period of sentence
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The bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice KV Vishwanathan passed the order for the negligence of the state of Madhya Pradesh, due to which the convict had to stay in jail for a long time.
The convict spends 4 years and 7 months more in jail Initially, when a notice was issued to the state of Madhya Pradesh, the court had said that the convict had imposed additional imprisonment for 8 years. However, the court told the court, senior advocate Nachiketa Joshi (from the state of Madhya Pradesh) that the convict was out on bail for some time.
The court made the convict’s lawyer Mahfuz A. According to information given by Nazaki (on behalf of the convict), the convict gave compensation keeping in mind the additional imprisonment of 4.7 years.
Trial court sentenced life imprisonment Sohan Singh alias Bablu of Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh was sentenced to life imprisonment by the trial court in 2004 in the rape case. Sohan Singh filed an appeal in the MP High Court against this decision. In October 2007, the High Court reduced the sentence from life imprisonment to 7 years. In 2021, he completed seven years of sentence. However, Sohan was not released.
Through legal aid, the file of this case reached the senior advocate Mahfuz -e -Nazki. Nazki interacted with the police and the legal aid team. So on 6 June 2025, he was released from jail. Later, when asked for compensation, the court saw that four and a half years were kept in additional jail.
In this case, the Supreme Court has ordered compensation to the victim by imposing a fine of 25 lakh on the MP government. Describing it as “serious lapse”, the court said that such illegal custody is not acceptable under any circumstances.
Supreme Court accepted administrative failure Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice K.V. Vishwanathan’s bench described it as “quite worrying and serious administrative failure”. The state government, the Home Department, Director General of Prisons and the concerned Jail Superintendent were asked why the release was not done even after completion of the sentence?
Custody Certificate/Sentence Calculation Sheet, Parole-Rimification and the entire file of adherence to court orders were asked to be submitted today. The court gave this verdict after hearing all the arguments.
