The top court also made it clear in its order that the concerned trial court should have to give its opinion within 15 days from the date of receipt of the remission plea.It also directed the State to immediately forward the plea of Babloo seeking concurrence or otherwise of centre in 10 days. The Centre to decide the plea, in 4 days after that.Earlier, in one of the hearings, the Aditional Advocate General (AAG) Garima Prasad told the SC that the gangster was convicted of serious offences, including those under the anti-terror law. “His petition for premature release has been dismissed by the competent authority which in this case is the office of governor on November 6,” she had told the bench.Prasad further contended that Srivastava has approached the court with “unclean hands” and has not disclosed the status of the petitions he has filed for premature release.”He has been filing a petition for remission every now and then. His first petition was dismissed in 2016,” she submitted.The bench, in its order on November 8, had asked the counsel for Srivastava to file all the orders and case records of all the petitions he has filed till now.
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