New Delhi, July 17 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the Bihar government's decision to grant remission to former Member of Parliament Anand Mohan in the 1994 murder of district magistrate G Krishnaiah observing that "every dice was loaded in his favour" to procure release.

Reserving orders on a petition filed by the deceased officer's wife Umadevi that questioned Mohan's release, a bench of justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu said that the brazen act of the convict in shooting dead an already injured Krishnaiah was a "rarest of rare" crime. It said that rule of law demands that an amendment to the remission rules should not be made to facilitate an individual.

As per the 2002 Bihar Prison Manual rules governing remission, ...