Case brief
What is this about?
Parole eligibility; first release on parole; one year of actual imprisonment; para 19.12 Prison Manual 2021; counting custody from date of admission to prison; time spent in other jails counted; Model Central Jail Nahan; 6 months and 17 days; custody w.e.f. 1.8.2018 to 30.5.2020; more than 2 years 5 months custody; 42 days parole; personal bond Rs.1 lac; two local sureties; surrender after four weeks; cancellation for breach of parole conditions; Meera Devi v State of H.P.; convict Rajesh Kumar; CWP No. 1447/2024; High Court of Himachal Pradesh, Shimla; Justices Tarlok Singh Chauhan and Sushil Kukreja; decided 8.4.2024.
What did the court decide?
Order rejecting the convict's parole quashed; respondents directed to release convict Rajesh Kumar on parole for 42 days, subject to furnishing a personal bond of Rs.1 lac with two local sureties of the like amount to the satisfaction of the Superintendent Jail, Model Central Jail, Nahan; convict to surrender immediately on expiry of four weeks of parole; parole liable to cancellation on breach of conditions or creation of law and order problems.