"God is great, thank you," said Brij Bihari Pandey after being released from Gorakhpur district jail. At 108 years, the murder convict was India's oldest prisoner, and was freed following a special bail granted to him by the Allahabad High Court.
"Brij Bihari Pandey was jailed in 2009 after being convicted along with 15 others for the murder in 1987 of four persons in Maharajganj over inheritance of a Hindu religious institution," Gorakhpur District Magistrate Hari Om said.
Pandey spent less than a year in jail as an undertrial in 1988, Om added.
The trial went on for more than two decades until 2009, when Pandey was convicted along with others to life imprisonment. His health was on a natural slide and went on deteriorating, following which an application was moved for his release on grounds of infirmities and illness.
Describing Pandey as the "oldest prisoner in the history of Indian prisons", Om said: "The man was released on Friday evening following a bail order issued by the Allahabad High Court on grounds of ill-health due to old age."
Deserves to be freed!
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