New Delhi: Tihar jail in Delhi has constituted a Sentence Review Board (SRB) which will meet this week to decide who should be freed as a gesture of goodwill when India marks Independence Day on Saturday.
The Board will review a list of 159 names and most of them have been serving jail terms longer than the given sentence.
According to sources, among the prisoners up for review are Pakistanis - Abdul Rahim, Naseer Mahmood, Nazir Khan and Amjad Ali who were found guilty of carrying weapons.
Reports say the Pakistani's have spent 23 years in Tihar Jail - which is more than the time they are required to serve.
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Also in the list is Santosh Kumar Singh, convicted in the murder of Priyadarshini Mattoo. His name had been proposed and turned down several times in the past.
The meeting will be under the chairmanship of Home Minister Satyendar Jain at the Delhi Secretariat. The Board also met in May during the lockdown and ordered the release of 19 prisoners - including Manu Sharma, convicted for the murder of model Jessica Lall while she worked as a celebrity barmaid in New Delhi.
When a prisoner's name is rejected by the panel, it returns for review only six months later.
