Ravi Ramu Sanap v. the State of Maharashtra
Case brief
What is this about?
Counting of Covid-19 emergency parole period towards sentence; exclusion of emergency/interim parole from actual imprisonment; parole granted via High-Powered Committee during pandemic; writ petition by convict (Ravi Ramu Sanap) against State of Maharashtra before Bombay High Court, Criminal Appellate Jurisdiction; petition disposed as devoid of merits following Supreme Court rulings in Anil Kumar v. State of Haryana ((2023) 18 SCC 601) and Contagion of COVID-19 Virus in Prisons, In re ((2021) 12 SCC 819 : (2023) 2 SCC (Cri) 634); reference to conviction under Sections 302/34 IPC with life imprisonment appears within the quoted Supreme Court extract; bench A. S. Gadkari and Ranjitsinha Raja Bhonsale, JJ.; decided 10th December 2025.
What did the court decide?
In view of the clear enunciation by the Hon'ble Supreme Court on the said issue, this Court finds that there are no merits in the Petition, and the Petition is accordingly disposed off.