THRISSUR: For an immensely rich and influential person like the convict Mohammed Nisham, the life in prison will not be a punishment, according to Jamanthi, wife of Chandrabose, the slain office assistant of Sobha City.
“For us the sentence was not on the expected lines and we are not satisfied with his getting life term,” she said reacting to the court order. The close relatives of the victim were upset over the court not awarding death sentence to Nisham.
“For the gruesome way in which he murdered my son, he deserves the noose and we are concerned about his getting a VIP treatment throughout his term in the prison and his coming out on parole using his influence,” said Ambujakshi, mother of Chandrabose.
The family members, however, said that the prosecution team led by C.P. Udayabhanu along with lawyers C.S. Hrithwik, T.S. Rajan and K.A. Salil Narayanan along with their assistant C.R. Johnson had tried their best to send Nisham to the gallows.
Kunnamkulam MLA Babu M. Palissery who was present at the court said that the compensation awarded to the family was meagre considering the Rs 5,000 -crore assets of the convicted beedi tycoon.
“It is even less than the cost of tyres of the Hummer car that Nisham used to hit Chandrabose,” he said.
Special Public Prosecutor in the case C.P. Udayabhanu said that it was up to the state government to move the High Court seeking death penalty for Nisham.
Meanwhile, former deputy director of prosecution, M. Mohammed, who was a part of the defence team of lawyers, was heard telling the close relatives of Nisham that even though life imprisonment means spending one’s whole life in prison, most such convicts were released by the government after 14 years through special orders.
“If a person is given life imprisonment, there is no point in the claims of prosecution lawyers that first the convict will serve 24 years’ rigorous imprisonment for related crimes and then the lifer for murder,” he said.
