Cut The Clutter : Remember S Manjunath, IIM grad shot by fuel mafia? 1 killer freed by UP policy that let Amarmani out

The remission policy drafted by the Yogi Adityanath government in UP allows lifers above 60 to walk free if they have served 16 years in prison and shown ‘good conduct’. Former UP minister Amarmani Tripathi, who killed a young pregnant poet in 2003, has inarguably been one of the big names freed by the policy. But more stories emerge when one scours the list of 691 convicts freed under the policy. In episode 1302 of #CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at one such, involving a young IIM alum and IndianOil employee — Manjunath Shanmugam — who cracked down on petrol pump adulteration and was murdered. One of his killers now walks free, more on the way and it raises some questions.