Nasik:
Pravin Mahajan, brother of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajn, has been given parole for the first time sine he was arrested on April 23, 2006.
He was released from Nashik Road Central Jail after securing parole from DIG (Prisons), Jail Superintendent of Aurangabad Swati Sathe said. He has been released on 14 days' parole.
Mahajan is learnt to have been released on medical grounds, though no official confirmation was immediately available.
Pravin was pronounced guilty and awarded life sentence by a Mumbai court in December 2007 for killing his elder brother Pramod at the latter's flat in Worli.
Pramod had succumbed to fatal bullet wounds in a city hospital on May 3, 2006.