1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.1592 OF 2009 Aamsidha Jabanna Wadare .... Petitioner Vs. The State of Maharashtra .... Respondent Through Jail Shri D.P. Adsule, APP, for the State. CORAM: BILAL NAZKI & A.R. JOSHI, JJ. DATED: OCTOBER 12, 2009 P.C: The petitioner has been convicted on 23-8-1994. He has claimed that under the Guidelines prevailing at the relevant time he was entitled to premature release as he had served more than 21 years of sentence. The Government considered his request and rejected it on 4-2-2009 by applying the Guidelines framed in 2008. The learned APP has placed on the record a copy of the letter received by him in which the Government has resolved to consider the case of the petitioner afresh in terms of the Guidelines which were in force on 2 the date on which the petitioner was convicted. In this view of the matter, we dispose of this petition with the direction to the Government to decide the petitioner's case finally within four weeks. (BILAL NAZKI, J.) (A.R. JOSHI, J.)