New Delhi: The sentence review board (SRB) of the Delhi government has postponed the decision to release Jessica Lall murder convict Manu Sharma, who is lodged in the Tihar jail.

A meeting of the review board held on Friday also postponed several other release applications, which include that of Tandoor murder case convict Sushil Sharma, the officials said.

The applications of release of covicts were deferred as the opinion of the board members were divided on it, a member of the board said.

The board, chaired by the Delhi home minister, comprises principal secretary (Home), principal secretary (law), director general (prisons), joint commissioner of police (crime), chief probation officer and a district judge.

An earlier meeting of the sentence review board, which was held in April was postponed amid surfacing of a letter by Sabrina Lall, sister of the deceased Jessica Lall, in which she had informed the authorities of the Tihar jail that the deceased’s sister had no objection over the release of convict Manu Sharma.

Jessica Lall was shot dead in a posh south Delhi restaurant by Manu Sharma in the year 1999.