In Barun Yadav vs. The State Of Bihar (2026), Supreme Court's Division Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Shree Chandrashekhar passed a 2-page long order dated July 16, 2026. It reads: "the State would submit that the State Sentence Review Board has considered the petitioner's case in its meeting dated 11.07.2026 and the formal report/ decision taken in the meeting is awaited. 2. Post the matter on 03.08.2026."
In its previous order, the Supreme Court had directed the respondent-State of Bihar to consider and decide the petitioner’s case for premature release/remission expeditiously. The petitioner’s case for pre-mature release/remission is under consideration which shall be decided in accordance with provisions of the Bihar Prison Manual.
The SLP arose out of impugned final judgment and order in Barun Yadav vs. The State of Bihar (2023), Patna High Court's Division Bench of Justices Chakradhari Sharan Singh and Rajiv Roy delivered a 11-page long judgement dated May 16, 2023, wherein it had concluded: "15. After having gone through the evidence of the prosecution's witnesses, we do not find any justifiable reason to doubt the veracity of the depositions made by the prosecution's witnesses at the trial in the facts and circumstance as noted above. In our view, based on the evidence of the prosecution's witnesses, the trial court has rightly held the appellant guilty of the offences punishable under Sections 302, 307 and 324 of the IPC for killing his father and his nephew in the wake of a dispute arising out of partition in the family and injuring PW-8. 16. We accordingly do not find any merit in this appeal which is accordingly dismissed." The High Court's judgement was authored by Justice Singh. The petitioner's counsel were Ajay Kumar Thakur, Ritvik Thakur and Vaishnavi Singh.
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