Pravesh @ Prabhash Yadav v. The State of Bihar through the Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar, Patna
Case brief
What is this about?
Premature release; remission; life imprisonment; S.302 IPC; Section 27(1) Arms Act; State Sentence Remission Board; Probation Officer report; Presiding Officer report; Superintendent of Police report; Prison Headquarters; Open Jail Buxar; Harpur P.S. Case No. 2 of 2008; Sessions Trial No. 358 of 2010; Sessions Trial No. 862 of 2008; Munger; Bihar; criminal writ; mandamus; actual custody sixteen years four months fourteen days; with remission twenty years three months twenty-nine days as on 12.02.2026; four-week placement timeline; six-week Board decision timeline; Patna High Court CR. WJC No.257 of 2026 dated 18-06-2026; Justice Arun Kumar Jha; petitioner Pravesh @ Prabhash Yadav; counsel Manoj Kumar.
What did the court decide?
Writ petition disposed of with directions: respondent authorities to obtain necessary statutory reports and place the petitioner's premature-release matter before the State Sentence Remission Board, preferably within four weeks of receipt/production of the order; the State Remission Board to take an appropriate decision in accordance with law within the subsequent six weeks.