release of
prisoners in order to decongest the prisons. The Supreme Court has
observed as under :-
"The issue of overcrowding of prisons ... Principal Secretary
(Home/Prison) by whatever designation is known as,
(ii) Director General of Prison(s), to determine
which class of prisoners can be released
policy framed by the State Government lays down
the class of prisoners who would be entitled to get the benefit of
remission and also ... granted to the
prisoners as per the period of sentence awarded to them. In the policy,
State has also clarified a class of convicts
type
of the prisoners to be covered by it.
Further, if the reformative imprisonments
are already underway in the prisons
themselves, perhaps, the immediate release ... rational and intelligible and it is not
discriminate between the same class of
prisoners, the Court is not competent to
say that such classification should
release of
prisoners in order to decongest the prisons. The Supreme Court has
observed as under :-
"The issue of overcrowding of prisons ... Principal Secretary
(Home/Prison) by whatever designation is known as,
(ii) Director General of Prison(s), to determine
which class of prisoners can be released
release
of prisoners in order to decongest the prisons. The Supreme Court
has observed as under :
"The issue of overcrowding of prisons ... Principal Secretary (Home/Prison) by whatever
designation is known as, (ii) Director General of
Prison(s), to determine which class of prisoners can
be released
each to the
satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate of First Class,
Kalyanadurgam, Ananthapur District.
SI)/. M. SURYANADHA RF'DDY
a.is;rsrar ... District
1. The Judicial magistrate of First Class' Kalyanadurgam'
Z. f ne Superintendent, Central Prison Ananthapur' Station
would fall in the category (a) of
Rule 529(iv) of a prisoner convicted of heinous offence and the
petitioner would be ineligible for premature ... claim of remission as also the policy
decision of the government making classes of persons or
category of offender to whom the remission would
noted in some detail. One Mini Varghese, a female
remand prisoner, sent a petition to the District Judge,
Kozhikode, inter alia, alleging that while ... concerned Magistrate on
9.8.2005 to do the needful. The Judicial Magistrate First
Class, Koyilandi recorded the statement of the victim on
11.8.2005 and thereafter
duty.
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xv. Prisoners sentenced to death sentence, which is later
commuted to life sentence.
xvi. Life convicts prisoners who are at large on
Parole ... case of the respondent-Director
General of Prisons and Correctional Services that none of the
life convicts prisoners fall under the restrictions imposed in
Clause
noted in some detail. One Mini Varghese, a female remand prisoner, sent a petition to the District Judge, Kozhikode, inter alia, alleging that while ... needful. The Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Koyilandi recorded the statement of the victim on 11-8-2005 and thereafter the matter was transferred