Bengaluru: Considering it a rare circumstance, the Karnataka High Court has directed jail authorities to launch a convict on parole for 15 days in order that he may get married to his girlfriend. The mom and lover of the convict, who’s serving a 10-year time period for homicide, approached the court docket fearing the latter was being married off to another person. The Additional Government Advocate, nonetheless, submitted to the court docket “that there is no provision for grant of parole to get married”. He submitted that if it have been to be anyone else’s marriage that the detenue wished to attend, it could have been a distinct circumstance. However, Justice M Nagaprasanna thought of this a rare state of affairs that warranted parole for the convict, Anand.
“According to the Additional Government Advocate, the objectives of parole as obtaining under Clause 636 of the Prison Manual would not ensure to the benefit of the detenue for his release. Sub-clause 12 of Clause 636 of the Prison Manual gives the discretion to the Head of the Institution to grant parole on any other extraordinary circumstances. It is therefore, in the considered view of this Court that this would be an extraordinary circumstance for grant of parole,” the court docket noticed.
Anand’s mom Rathnamma and lover Neetha G, had approached the High Court with the petition.
In the petition, 30-year-old Neetha claimed that she can be married off to another person and, due to this fact, Anand must be granted parole to marry her.
She claimed to be in love with Anand for the final 9 years.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment for homicide which was later lowered to 10 years imprisonment. He has already served six years of the sentence.
The court docket recorded the submission of the advocate for the mom and his girlfriend.
“Would contend that the release of the detenue is imperative, otherwise, he will lose the love of his life. Being in prison, he cannot bear the agony of his love getting married to someone else and therefore, seeks emergency parole on any condition that would be imposed upon the petitioner,” the court docket recorded in its judgment.
The court docket directed the Deputy Inspector General of Prisons, Central Prison, Parappana Agrahara and Chief Superintendent of Police to “consider the representation of the petitioners and release the detenue/Anand on parole from the forenoon of 05.04.2023, till the evening of 20.04.2023.”
They have been additionally directed to “stipulate strict conditions as are usually stipulated, to ensure return of the detenue and he shall not commit any other offence during the period of parole.”
