Supreme Court of India

State of Haryana and Ors. v. Jagdish

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Reported as [2010] 3 S.C.R. 716

Bench K.G. Balakrishnan, J.M. Panchal and Dr. B.S. Chauhan JJ.

Decided 22 March 2010

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From the headnote

Constitution of India, 1950 - Articles 161 and 72 - Life convict - Pre-mature release - Powers of clemency - Respondent convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment as a Class 3 prisoner - He sought pre-mature release after serving more than 10 years of imprisonment - Case for pre mature release of respondent - To be considered as per o policy prevailing on date of his conviction, i.e. policy dated 4-2-~993 or as per short sentencing policy subsequently introduced on 13-8-2008 - Policy dated 04-02-1993 referred to exercise of powers under Article 161 of the Constitution whereas policy dated

Authorities it was built on

2000 State of Haryana v. Nauratta Singh and Ors. cited by 4
1975 G. Krishta Goud & J. Bhoomaiah v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors. cited by 4
1996 Jagdjsh Narain and Anr. v. State of U.P. cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2026 Parveen Kumar@ Parveen Chauhan v. State of Haryana relied on
2025 Firoz Khan Akbarkhan v. The State of Maharashtra relied on
2023 Rajo @ Rajwa @ Rajendra Mandal v. The State of Bihar & Ors. relied on
2023 Rajkumar v. The State of Uttar Pradesh relied on
2022 Ram Chander v. The State of Chhattisgarh & Anr. relied on
2022 Sharafat Ali v. State of Uttar Pradesh and Another relied on
2012 Sangeet & Anr. v. State of Haryana relied on
2025 Om Prakash @ Israel @ Raju @ Raju Das v. Union of India and Another referred to
2024 Bilkis Yakub Rasool v. Union of India & Others referred to
2023 Vikas Chaudhary v. The State of Delhi referred to
2022 Rashidul Jafar @ Chota v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr referred to
2021 The State of Haryana & Ors v. Raj Kumar @ Bittu referred to
2020 Pyare Lal v. State of Haryana referred to
2015 Union of India v. V. Sriharan @ Murugan & Ors. referred to
2013 Krishnan & Ors. v. State of Haryana & Ors. referred to
2012 State of U.P. v. Sanjay Kumar referred to

Of those, 7 relied on · 9 referred to

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