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Congress leader Sajjan Kumar has been found guilty in 1984 riots case. The Delhi High Court has sentenced him to life imprisonment on Monday. Generally, there is confusion in public about this life imprisonment punishment. Some people believe that life imprisonment means jail for 14 years or 20 years. While some think that life-imprisonment does not mean imprisonment till death. Well, today we remove this suspicion.
When an accused is convicted of life imprisonment on conviction, then he will have to stay in a jail till death. But it is heard that even after getting life imprisonment; a prisoner was released from jail only in 14 years. Have you ever wondered why? Life imprisonment is meant to stay in jail until the culprit is dead, that is, until the culprit does not end the breath, he should not be released, then how does any culprit come out of jail in 14 years?
What is in the constitution?
Let us tell you that there is nowhere in the Constitution that the sentence of life imprisonment will be of 14 years. After every court of the country proves guilty, it decides that the culprit will get life imprisonment or any other sentence.
The Supreme Court has clarified in its decision in 2012 that life imprisonment or life imprisonment means jail for life and nothing more than that. Life imprisonment means prison for an entire lifetime.
In fact, the sentence of life imprisonment is not 14 years. There are misconceptions about this in India. There are many laws have been made, according to the criminal's guilt, guilty will be punished with life imprisonment or else it is decided very carefully.
We know that the court's work is to punish the guilty, but it is in the hands of the state government to execute it. The authority of the state government is to release the accused of life imprisonment in 14 years, in 20 years or till the time of death.
What is written about life imprisonment in the Constitution of India?
It is not written in the Constitution of India that the sentence of life imprisonment will be 14, 20 or 30 years. Giving life imprisonment to the culprit means that he will have to be punished only in jail unless he dies.
Let's now study for the reason behind 14 years of the sentence.
In order to reduce the prisoner's duration, under the CRPC Section 432 of the Constitution, the appropriate government must pass a specific order.
At the same time, under the Constitution 433-A of the CRPC, the State Government has got this right that it can reduce or suspend the sentence of the prisoners. Regardless of the punishment, whether it is a few months, years or years of life, the state governments have the complete discretion to request it to be reduced.
The prisoner is under the supervision of the state government, so the state government has been entrusted it, in such a case, if the state government appeals to the reduction of punishment, it is heard. The thing to note here is that life imprisonment can be for 16 years or 30 years or forever but cannot be less than 14 years.
It has been decided by the Constitution that the state government should ensure that the culprit convicted of life imprisonment is not released before 14 years.
Do you know what can be the reason for release?
After 14 years, the state government can reside anytime after 14 years, depending on the conduct of the prisoner, illness, family issues or any reason which is correct or necessary.
It would be wrong to say that life imprisonment or life imprisonment is for 14 years only. In all cases, a life sentence cannot be for 14 years. Age sentence is meant only for life.
