The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has directed the state’s additional chief secretary/principal secretary (prison administration and reforms) to file a personal affidavit (reply) placing on record relevant data relating to prisoners who have completed 14 years of imprisonment across Uttar Pradesh and whose cases are eligible for consideration of sentence remission.
The matter has been listed for further hearing on May 11 and will be taken up within the top 10 cases. (FILE PHOTO) The court sought details of prisoners in whose cases statutory formalities, including preparation and forwarding of Form-A under the UP Prisoners’ Release on Probation Act, 1938, have been completed. It also directed the state to disclose how many cases seeking remission are still pending before the competent authority, the duration of such pendency and the reasons for delay.
The affidavit will also have to specify the number of applications forwarded for consideration of remission and the number of cases in which remission has been granted, the high court said.
A division bench of Justice Rajan Roy and Justice Manjive Shukla passed the order on April 8 while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed in 2020 by Bijay Kumar Singh Parmar, a local lawyer who raised a matter of public interest concerning the prisoners who are not in a position to raise their grievances for their legal rights.
“What steps are being taken by the state government to ensure orderly forwarding of Form-A and other applications for
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