UP govt rejects premature release plea of gangster Babloo Srivastava

THE UP government has informed the Supreme Court that it has rejected the latest premature release plea of gangster Om Prakash Srivastava, alias Babloo Srivastava, who is serving a life sentence for the 1993 murder of an additional customs collector.

- SUCHITRA K MOHANTY

Additional Advocate General Garima Prasad told a two-judge bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih, that the gangster was convicted of serious offences, including under the anti-terror law.

She contended that Srivastava approached the court with "unclean hands" without disclosing the status of the pleas he had filed for premature release. "He has been filing petitions for remission every now and then. His first petition was dismissed in 2016," she said.