Overview

• The court set aside the Sentence Review Board’s April 24 minutes that rejected Hari Singh’s plea for premature release.
• Justice Narula directed the SRB to reconsider the petition and deliver its decision within eight weeks.
• The high court ruled the board failed to provide adequate reasoning and overlooked judicial observations on Singh’s conduct.
• Singh’s nearly 18 years of incident-free imprisonment was highlighted as evidence of his reformation.
• Hari Singh was convicted in 2001 for hijacking a 1993 Indian Airlines flight and lost his appeal in 2011 after exhausting Supreme Court review.