classification of prisoners according to the intensity and gravity
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of the offence. According to the classification of prisoners, Class 1
prisoners are those ... fall within Class 1 or Class 2. Rule 20 thereof provides that life convict
being a Class 1 prisoner if earned such remission as entitles
serving for at least 14
years imprisonment before which the class of prisoners
canbe released and the matter came up before the
Constitutional Bench ... offenders who have
committed heinous crimes and provided that the classes of
prisoners mentioned in sub-clauses (a) to (d) ordinarily
will not be eligible
prisoners shall not be granted furlough:- The following
categories of prisoners shall not be considered for release on furlough :
(1) Habitual prisoners.
(2) Prisoners convicted ... Prison, not satisfactory enough.
(7) Prisoners confined in the Ratnagiri Special Prison (other than
prisoner transferred to that prison for jail services).
(8) Prisoners convicted
power under Section 432 Cr.P.C. to exclude a class of prisoners from benefit of remission is not affected by Section ... that the Governments power under Section 432 to exclude a class of prisoners from benefit of remission is not affected by Section 433-A. Keeping
Class I prisoners,
(m) women prisoners,
(n) any other prisoner or category of prisoners whom the
Inspector General of Prisons considers unfit for being sent ... case histories and files of the prisoners
at the respective Central Prisons and District Prisons,
Class-I.
(iv) The case of each prisoner shall
Government Instruction for B-Class issued vide
letter dated 25.5.1983, B-Class facility can be granted to prisoners on the
basis of social/political status ... shall be divided into three classes,
namely a,B, and C. Class. 'A' will contain all prisoners who are-
(a) Non-habitual prisoners
application and affidavit duly
attested by a Magistrate Ist Class, Amritsar and a co-prisoners Certificate ... affidavit of Sh. Gursharan Singh duly attested by Magistrate Ist
Class, Amritsar. Another co-prisoner's certificate and an affidavit of Sh.
Kundan Singh
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
from any of the eligibilities mentioned in Rule 3 of the Rajasthan Prisoners Open Air Camp Rules, 1972.
Rule 3 of the said Rules reads ... follows :
3. Ineligibility for admission to open air camp.- The following classes of prisoners shall ordinarily be not eligible for being sent to Open Camp
seeks benefit of government policy of giving
remission to certain class of prisoners formulated by resolution
dated 02.10.2007. It is not in dispute that
