New Delhi: Manu Sharma, who was in life imprisonment in the sensational Jessica Lal murder case in 1999, was released from Tihar Jail on Monday. The Delhi Lt. Governor Anil Baijal’s approval gave a way for his premature release, said DG (prisons) Sanjeev Geol.

Manu Sharma is a son of former Union Minister Venod Sharma, who is in the imprisonment in the murder case of Jessica Lal. Due to his good performance in the jail, the Delhi sentence review board, which is under the Delhi Government recommended the Manu Sharma’s release to Anil Baijal, said officials.

The Delhi Home Department had issued an order on May 28^th for premature release of 19 convicts, including Sharma’s, said the officials. Manu Sharma was convicted in 2006 for shooting model Jessica Lal after she refused to serve him liquor at the Tamarind Court restaurant owned by socialite Bina Ramani at Qutub Colonnade in South Delhi’s Mehrauli area on April 30’s night 1999.

A trial court had acquitted Manu Sharma of the murder, but the High Court, which undertook the case amid national wide outrage and protests, reversed the trial court decision and sentenced him to a life term. The Supreme Court in 2010 upheld the life sentence. Manu Sharma was on Parole since the first week of April. He was release from Tihar Jail on Monday, said his lawyer Amit Sahni. According to the DSRB Manu Sharma has availed Parole 12 times and furlough 24 times.