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PANAJI
One of the victims and an NGO have objected to the release of convicted serial killer Mahanand Naik as ordered by the court which accepted his application for parole.
The victim and the NGO Savera has in a letter urged the Inspector General of Prisons not to release him. “A person released on parole with such history of killing will be dangerous to witnesses, families of the victims and society at large,” claimed Tara Kerkar of NGO Savera.
Inspector General of Prisons on May 29 had granted the release of Mahanand Naik on parole for 21 days subject to conditions.
Mahanand had challenged one of these conditions which stipulated that he execute a personal surety bond of Rs one lakh through a petition before the Bombay High Court at Goa.
The High Court on Tuesday had disposed his petition by ruling that the condition to deposit cash in advance was not mandatory.
Mahanand is accused of killing around 15 women after he befriended them over 15 years between 1994 and 2009. He has been convicted in three cases and sentenced to life terms, acquitted in a few and trial is on in some others.
Meanwhile, one of his victims whose complaint of rape had blown the lid off Mahanand’s serial crimes has also made her representation to the IG Prisons that his release will be a threat to her life. She has claimed that even from prison, Mahanand has telephonically and through a letter threatened her.
Mahanand has spent the last nine years in jail for the murders of Yogita Naik, Vasanti Gaude and Susila
Fatarpekar.
