Telangana high court issues notices to Centre, state govt on remission plea of prisoner convicted by UK court

Hyderabad: The Telangana high court has issued notices to the Centre and the state seeking their responses to a petition for remission for a person convicted by a court in the United Kingdom in a murder case and currently lodged in Sangareddy central prison.

The court directed them to file their counters within four weeks. Nagaraju Kumar Nalluri, a Hyderabad native, was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years by the UK court in 2008 before being considered for parole and subsequently extradited to India in 2015 in line with the extradition treaty between India and the UK. The petition was filed by his parents residing in the city. His father is a lecturer and mother a principal in a reputed private college.Nagaraju was convicted of killing his roommate, a native of AP, in May 2008 in Birmingham after she refused his proposal. He had attacked her repeatedly with a dumbbell and also tried to kill himself. Both were studying at the University of Wolverhampton. According to his parents’ counsel, they approached the Sangareddy prison authorities to release Nagaraju on parole so that he could spend some time with the family.

They had also cited his long prison term since the sentence.But the request was rejected by prison authorities in March, leading to his parents moving the HC. Their counsel submitted that in the past, in similar cases, the Supreme Court had given relief to prisoners. However, the court expressed doubts about their jurisdiction to pass orders in a conviction awarded by a UK court and sought responses from the Union and state govts as well as the Telangana prisons department.