Supreme Court of India
Laxman Naskar Etc. Etc. v. Union of India and Ors.
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5 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.
What the Court ordered
In the result, we set aside all the orders of the State Government and direct the authorities to re-consider the cases for premature release of all F ''life convicts' who have approached us by filing present Writ Petitions as per relevant rules/guidelines within a period of one month from the receipt of this order.
Judgment, page 4
From the headnote
Constitution of India-Art. 161--Premature release of life con victs-Scope of power under Art. 161-!f Government has framed any rule or made a scheme for early release of such convicts, those rules or schemes to be treated as guidelines for exercising such powers. These writ petitions were filed on behalf of 'life convicts' challenging order of the Government rejecting their prayer for premature release. All the 'life convicts' had completfd continued detention of 20 years including remission earned. Their prayer for pr1~mature release was rejected mainly on the ground of objections by police
Where later benches applied it
- 2024 Bilkis Yakub Rasool v. Union of India & Others
- 2023 Rajo @ Rajwa @ Rajendra Mandal v. The State of Bihar & Ors.
- 2013 Life Convict Bengal @ Khoka @ Prasanta Sen v. B.K. Srivastava & Ors.
- 2026 Rohit Chaturvedi v. State of Uttarakhand
- 2015 Union of India v. V. Sriharan @ Murugan & Ors.
Of those, 3 relied on · 2 referred to
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