New Delhi:The Delhi High Court Tuesday granted three-week parole to Santosh Kumar Singh, who is serving life term for the 1996 rape and murder of law student Priyadarshini Mattoo, to appear for LLM examination.
Justice Mukta Gupta granted the parole to Singh for appearing in the final year examination of LLM (Master of Laws).
Singh had completed the first branch of LLM in 2014 and thereafter took admission in the second branch.
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The court said Singh's examinations are scheduled to commence from May 24 and he is released from jail from May 21 after the Delhi government did not oppose his plea.
Mattoo, 25, was raped and murdered in January 1996. Singh, a law student of Delhi University, was acquitted by the trial court in the case on December 3, 1999, but the Delhi High Court had on October 27, 2006, reversed the decision, holding him guilty of rape and murder and awarded him the death penalty.
The son of a former IPS officer had challenged his conviction and death sentence awarded by the high court.
In October 2010, the Supreme Court had upheld Singh's conviction but commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment.