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Bombay High Court Dismisses State's Petition Challenging Sessions Judge's Order Permitting Home Food to Undertrial Prisoner on Medical Grounds. Power of Magistrate to Grant Home Food is Implicit in Detention Powers Under Prisons Act, 1984, and Medical Condition of Prisoner Justifies Such Permission.

The State of Maharashtra, through the Superintendent of Jail, Latur, filed a criminal writ petition under Article 227 of the Constitution of India cha...

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Supreme Court Upholds Parole Order for Convict in Culpable Homicide Case Due to Arbitrary Rejection and Delay in Execution. Rejection of permanent parole on ground of not applying for regular parole held unsustainable; delay in implementing High Court order violates Article 21.

The appellant, Daulal, was convicted for offences under Sections 148, 448, 304 Part II read with 149, and 323 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, and sent...

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Bombay High Court Allows Petition of Life Convict Seeking Set-off of Undertrial Detention Under Section 428 CrPC. Prison Authorities Directed to Compute and Deduct Period of More Than Two Years Spent as Undertrial from Life Sentence After Commutation of Death Sentence.

The petitioner, Clint Fernandez, was convicted in Sessions Case No. 112 of 2004 and sentenced to death by the trial court. He appealed to the Supreme ...

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Madras High Court Allows Undertrial Prisoner to Vote via Postal Ballot in Assembly Elections — Right to Vote Not Extinguished by Detention. Section 62(5) of Representation of the People Act, 1951 does not apply to undertrials; court directs Election Commission to facilitate postal ballot.

The petitioner, Hari Nadar, an undertrial prisoner confined in Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai, filed a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constit...

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Bombay High Court Dismisses Journalist's Compensation Claim for Handcuffing During Police Transit. No Violation of Articles 14 and 21 Found as Handcuffing Was Justified by Threat of Escape and No Malice Established.

The petitioner, Satish Banwarilal Sharma, a journalist and managing editor of a daily newspaper, filed a criminal writ petition under Article 226 of t...