HYDERABAD: State public prosecutor Palle Nageswara Rao wrote two demi official letters to the director general of prisons, asking him to keep the PP office in the high court informed about the status of the convicts in prisons, particularly of those whose appeals against conviction are heard by the high court.
If any convict whose appeal is pending before the high court dies in the meantime, the same should be informed to the PP office, Nageswara Rao said in the letter.
The PP was shocked to know the fact that a life con vict from Medak district, who was acquitted by the high court last week, had actually died six years ago while serving his life sentence in Cherlapalli prison.
Since the prison authorities did not inform the PP office, an additional PP argued the case and opposed any relief to the prisoner, Pochaiah, of Peddagundelli village in Medak district because he was convicted in a heinous crime of murdering his 80-year-old mother and showed it as a suicide.
The high court verified the record and noticed that the witnesses in the case turned hostile and acquitted him. But, it has emerged now that Pochaiah had died of illhealth in 2018 and the prison officials did not inform this to the PP office. Since this was an old case, the high court went ahead and decided the case based on the material available before it.
Nageswara Rao conveyed his disapproval over the negligent way the prison authorities have acted in this case and asked DG prisons to direct them to keep the PP office posted about any such deaths of prisoners whose appeals are pending before the high court.
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