Current Status
Sharma was incarcerated in the Tihar Jail along with the co-accused Vikas Yadav and Amardeep Singh Gill, who had been sentenced for destroying evidence. Along with another high-profile convict, Santosh Kumar Singh, Sharma is involved in helping other prisoners draft legal appeals.
On September 24, 2009 Delhi Lieutenant Governor granted Manu Sharma 30-day parole from jail, on the grounds that Sharma needed to attend to his ailing mother, attend the last rites of his grandmother and also look after the family business which was suffering in his absence. But, the basis for the parole was proved unfounded as Sharma's grandmother had already died in 2008. During the second extension of the parole for another 30 days, Sharma was seen partying in a discothèque in Delhi. His mother, whose illness was also the basis for the parole, was seen at a media briefing promoting a ladies cricket tournament at his family-run hotel in Chandigarh. It was also later revealed that the parole was granted despite an objection from the Delhi police.
In November 2009, Chief Minister Sheila Dixit came under criticism for granting parole to Manu Sharma after media reports of him visiting night clubs in Delhi emerged. During the parole he got involved in a brawl with son of police commissioner of Delhi. After a public uproar that he violated parole norms, the Delhi Government had to cancel his parole and on 10 November 2009 Manu returned to Tihar Jail after violation of his parole was confirmed.
While imprisoned Sharma established the Siddhartha Vashishta Charitable Trust, which is managed by his mother and brother. According to The Times of India, the trust is intended to assist causes such as" child education, cancer awareness, rehabilitation of prisoners etc." By July 2011 it had provided assistance to at least 130 children of prison inmates.
Sharma was granted five days' parole in November 2011 in order to attend the marriage of his younger brother. The parole restricted his movements to the cities of Karnal, Chandigarh and Ambala and prevented him from visiting any night club.
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