World's oldest prisoner at 108

Serving life sentence in a prison in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur town, about 275 km from here, 108-year-old Brij Bihari could very well be the oldest prisoner in the world.

After spending about 24 years in the jail on the charge of killing four people along with some others, Brij Bihari, a resident of Barahara Mahant village, could finally expect to breathe fresh air on Republic Day.

Bihari and 18 others were sentenced to life imprisonment for the killings at Bariyapur Shahi village in the district in 1987. Of them, three died while serving their sentence in jail.
As many as 16 members of Brij Bihari’s family, including himself, had been named in the killings. The sensational killings, which were attributed to old enmity, had evoked an outcry then. Read More................World's oldest prisoner at 108

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