Bombay High Court Allows Emergency Parole to Life Convict in MCOCA Case Due to COVID-19 Pandemic Despite Non-Payment of Fine. Non-payment of fine cannot be a ground to deny emergency parole when the convict has completed the requisite actual sentence and the purpose of parole is to decongest prisons during pandemic.
15 Sep 2020The petitioner, Santosh Manohar Deshmukh, was convicted under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (MCOCA) on October 20, 2005 and sen...
