The accused has already served six years of the sentence.(File Photo: Reuters)
The mom and lover of the convict, who’s serving a 10-year time period for homicide, approached the courtroom fearing the latter was being married off to another person.
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 might get married to his girlfriend.
The mom and lover of the convict, who’s serving a 10-year time period for homicide, approached the courtroom fearing the latter was being married off to another person.
The Additional Government Advocate, nevertheless, submitted to the courtroom “that there isn’t a provision for grant of parole to get married”.
He submitted that if it were to be anybody else’s marriage that the detenue wanted to attend, it would have been a different circumstance.
However, Justice M Nagaprasanna considered this as an extraordinary situation that warranted parole to 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 courtroom 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, subsequently, Anand ought to 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 courtroom recorded the submission of the advocate for the mom and his girlfriend.
“Would contend that the discharge of the detenue is crucial, in any other case, he’ll lose the love of his life. Being in jail, he can not bear the agony of his love getting married to another person and subsequently, seeks emergency parole on any situation that might be imposed upon the petitioner,” the court recorded in its judgment.
The court 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 had been additionally directed to “stipulate strict situations as are normally stipulated, to make sure return of the detenue and he shall not commit every other offence throughout the interval of parole.”
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