IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY VPH CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION No. 1371 OF 2008 Ravindra Trimbak Chouthmal Petitioner Vs. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. Respondents Mr. N. N. Gavankar with Mr. Arfan Sait for the petitioner. Mr. P. S. Hingorani, APP, for the respondent. CORAM : BILAL NAZKI, & A. A. KUMBHKONI, JJ. DATE : JULY 21, 2008. PC :- 1. The petitioner was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. It is contended that the petitioner has already completed 16 and half years of actual imprisonment and about 28 years of imprisonment with remissions. Therefore, the petitioner is entitled to be released in view of the government policy framed vide G.R. order No. RLP-1005/1739/Pra.Kra.624/PRS-3, Home Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai, dated 15th November, 2007. But the Government rejected the claim of the petitioner. According to them, the petitioner did not fall within the policy framed by the Government. 2. The Government has made certain amendments in the - 2 - policy and the new policy has been framed vide G.R. No. RLP 1006/CR 621/PRS-3, Mandralaya, Mumbai, dated 11th April, 2008. Since the policy has been framed afresh by the Government, we direct the respondent to consider the case of the petitioner, in accordance of the new policy framed in the year 2008 by the Government and pass the appropriate order within a period of four weeks. With these observations, petition is disposed of. Sd/- [ BILAL NAZKI, J.] Sd/- [ A. A. KUMBHAKONI, J.]