I feel that a life sentence for
somebody who is truly guilty of committing murder is not justice at all; I have
heartfelt sympathy and empathy for this woman and her children who will live
without a father. But in this case, I am quite satisfied that the government
did compensate the victims’ family by supporting them financially. Read more
here:
DM murder case: Life
sentence not right punishment for the killers, says wife
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Srinivasa Rao | Hyderabad, July 10, 2012 | 19:57
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"I cannot say whether justice was
meted out to me and my family. We would have been happier had the killers been
hanged to death. Life imprisonment, that too, after nearly 18 years, is
certainly not the right punishment for them," says Uma Krishnaiah, wife of
slain IAS officer G Krishnaiah.
The
1985-batch Dalit IAS officer of Bihar cadre was attacked and shot dead by
gangsters near Khaabra village on National Highway 28 on December 5, 1994 when
he was returning to Gopalganj from Hajipur via Muzaffarpur after attending an
official meeting. He was the district magistrate of Gopalganj then.
The
Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the judgement of Patna High Court in December
2008, convicting and sentencing former Bihar MP Anand Mohan Singh, the prime
accused in the Krishnaiah's
murder, to life imprisonment.
It
was Mail Today, which first broke the news of the Supreme Court verdict to Uma,
when she was in the Government Degree College for Women at Begumpet in
Hyderabad, where she has been working as a lecturer in Chemistry for the last
15 years. "What is there to react on the
judgement? Though I am happy that there was at least some punishment for my
husband's killers, but I would have been happier had it been a death
penalty," she said.
Uma
still dreads to recall the fateful day, when Krishnaiah was stoned by the
frenzied mob and late shot dead. "I never forget the day; but I never
discuss the incident with my two daughters who were too young to remember their
father - elder daughter Niharika was seven and younger one Padma was
five-year-old, though the former has faint memories of her father," she
said.
Uma
was in her early 30's when her husband was killed. Since then, she toiled day
and night to bring up the two kids. As she hailed from a lower middle class
family in Gadwal town of Mahbubnagar district, her father was a school teacher,
Uma could withstand the ordeals and struggled to live a difficult life without
her husband.
Now,
Niharika has finished her engineering in electronics and computers and appeared
for the Civil Services Examination of the UPSC and the Group-I examination of
the state services. She is confident of making it to the Civils and carrying
forward the unfinished task of her father. And the younger daughter is doing
her post-graduation in English literature, her father’s qualification before
he made it to the IAS.
Uma
thanks both the Bihar and Andhra governments for helping her to sustain after
the killing of Krishnaiah. "Apart from monetary assistance, I was provided
with a plot in the Jubilee Hills, where I constructed a house later. The IAS
Officers' Association helped me fight the legal battle and it was because of
the association that the case came up to the logical conclusion," she
said.
Asked
whether she received any threats from the Bihar gangsters, especially the MP's
followers, during her legal battle, Uma replied in the negative. "After
the incident, I came back to Hyderabad and what would they gain if they
threaten me?" she asked.
While
Krishnaiah's father, a construction labourer, died in 1991 itself, his mother
Yenkamma was staying with her daughter-in-law till she died one and a half
years ago. "We are living in their memories now. All that I wanted was to
see my daughters in good position and they are fulfilling my dreams," Uma
said.
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