Supreme Court of India

Satish @ Sabbe v. The State of Uttar Pradesh

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Reported as [2020] 9 S.C.R. 21
Bench N. V. Ramana, Surya Kant and Hrishikesh Roy JJ.
Decided 30 September 2020

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons stated above, the Special Leave Peti tions are disposed of with a direction that the petitioners be released on probation in terms of Section 2 of the UP Prisoners Release on Probation Act, 1938 within a period of two weeks.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Uttar Pradesh Prisoners Release on Probation Act, 193 8: s.2 – Pre-mature release – Entitlement – Criteria – Held: Length of sentence or gravity of the original crime can’t be the sole basis for refusing pre-mature release – First-time offend ers ought to be liberally accorded a chance – Any assessment regarding predile ction to commit crime after release must be based on antecedent s as well as conduct of the prisoners in jail and not on his age or apprehensions of the victims and witnesses – In the present case three-factor evaluation of (i) antecedents (ii) con duct during incarceration

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