New Delhi, May 16 -- The Supreme Court on Friday held that the executive cannot deny remission solely on grounds of the crime being heinous paving the way for the premature release of a life convict, 22 years after he was jailed in the 2003 Madhumita Shukla murder case in Uttar Pradesh. The convict, Rohit Chaturvedi had challenged the decision of the Ministry of Home Affairs passed on July 9, 2025, denying his remission plea. He alleged that the former UP legislator Amarmani Tripathi, his co-accused had been allowed premature release after 17 years of his life term while he was kept under incarceration despite the Uttarakhand government favouring his remission plea. As the case was investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) a...