Convicts Jitendra Shinde and Nitin Bhailume were sentenced to death in November 2017 by a trial court for raping and killing a minor girl in Kopardi in the Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district in 2016.
The Maharashtra government petitioned the High Court for confirmation of the death sentence, while Shinde and Bhailume petitioned the court to overturn their convictions. Both cases are now ongoing before the High Court.
The petitioners, through advocate Rebecca Gonsalvez, moved the petition in the High Court to express their desire to pursue academic courses while lodged in Pune’s Yerwada Central Jail.
Pursuant to a notice being issued by the court in April, the Superintendent of the jail provided the petitioners with a list of courses they can pursue from either Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University or Indira Gandhi National Open University.
The Jail Superintendent deposed that as soon as the admission process for the academic year 2022-2023 commences, necessary steps to admit the petitioners in courses of their choice will be taken.
Source: Barandbench
