The Delhi High Court on Tuesday extended by 18 days the parole granted to Jessica Lall murder convict Manu Sharma to pursue his LLB course and get his marriage registered.
Sharma is undergoing life term for killing model Jessica Lall in 1999.
Sharma, the son of the former Haryana minister Venod Sharma, has been allowd to remain on parole till January 31, after he urged the court that he has to attend his personal contact programme in connection with the LLB course and re-establish social ties.
“Keeping in view that petitioner (Sharma) has been granted parole by this court earlier also, the court is inclined to give him the relief till January 31,” the court of Justice AK Pathak said.
Sharma had moved the High Court through his counsel Amit Sahni, seeking direction to the Delhi government to decide his plea for extension of parole for one month.
The Delhi government on December 27, 2016, granted two weeks of parole to Sharma to enable him to appear for his LLB second semester exams from December 31, 2016. His parole ends on January 12.
The convict had told the court that he be granted parole for a month as he has to appear before the registrar in Chandigarh on January 19 for registration of his marriage.
The convict, who has been given parole six times since September, 2009, has completed a post-graduate diploma in Human Rights and is now pursuing a Bachelor’s in Law course from Annamalai University in Tamil Nadu.
Lall was shot dead by Sharma after she had refused to serve him liquor at the Tamarind Court restaurant owned by socialite Bina Ramani at Qutub Colonnade in South Delhi’s Mehrauli area on the night of April 30, 1999.
