New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will hear the parole plea of Jessica Lall's killer Manu Sharma on Monday. Sources say the police will be opposing his appeal on the grounds that he has violated parole conditions in the past.
Sharma's parole had already been rejected by the administrative side of the high court on October 21.
Sharma was awarded life imprisonment by the Delhi High Court in December 2006 for the murder of Lall in 1999. The life term was upheld by the Supreme Court last year.
In September 2009, Sharma was released from jail on a 30-day-parole on the ground that he needed to attend to his ailing mother and perform the rituals following the death of his grandmother.
But, the basis for the parole was proved unfounded as Sharma's grandmother had already died in 2008. During the second extension of the parole for another 30 days, Sharma was seen partying in a discotheque in Delhi. His mother, whose illness was also the basis for the parole, was seen at a media briefing promoting a ladies cricket tournament at Piccadilly - the family-run hotel in Chandigarh.
After an uproar that he violated parole norms, Sharma had to surrender to the jail authority before the expiry of his parole period.
(With additional information from PTI)
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