New Delhi, July 29 -- The Supreme Court has ordered the release of convict Sukhdev Yadav alias Pehalwan in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case, noting that he had completed his 20-year sentence in March 2025.
The bench on Monday expressed strong disapproval of the Sentence Review Board's (SRB) decision to reject Yadav's remission plea despite the completion of his sentence.
A Bench comprising Justice B.V. Nagarathna and Justice K.V. Viswanathan questioned the conduct of the SRB and remarked, "How can the Sentence Review Board sit over an order of the judicial authority? If this is the approach, then every convict will die in jail. Is this the conduct of an executive?"
The court emphasized that Yadav ought to have been released upon comple...