PREM NATH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) IN Criminal Writ Petition No. 1458 of 1989 disposed of vide order dated 10-11-1989, it was directed that the Inspector General (Prisons) shall reconsider the case of the petitioner for furlough within a period of two months from that day after calling the report of the District Magistrate, Ludhiana. In case the case is not decided within the stipulated period, then the petitioner shall be released on furlough for three weeks on furnishing requisite bonds to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ludhiana. The petitioner then approached the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ludhiana for furnishing requisite bonds etc. but was apprised of the rejection of his application for furlough within the stipulated period. Under these circumstances, the petitioner has filed the present writ petition contending that the concerned authorities had wrongly rejected his petition for furlough.

(2.) IN the return filed by Daulat Singh, Chief Welfare Officer, on behalf of the respondents, it is maintained in paras 3 and 6 as under :-

(3.) THE petitioner has committed the murder at Ludhiana and was sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life by the learned Sessions Judge, Ludhiana. He hails from Delhi and is at present confined in Central Jail, Patiala.