1 Criminal W.P. No.1033 of 2010 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.1033 OF 2010 Ramesh Dagadu Jain PETITIONER VERSUS The State of Maharashtra RESPONDENT Miss.S.S.Adkine, learned counsel for the petitioner. (Appointed) Mr.N.R.Shaikh, learned A.P.P. for respondent State. (CORAM : P.V.HARDAS, AND A.V.POTDAR, J.J.) DATE : 13/12/2010 ORAL JUDGMENT : (Per P.V.Hardas, J.) 1. Rule. Rule returnable forthwith. With the consent of learned counsels for the parties, this petition is heard finally at the stage of admission. 2. A communication sent by the petitioner through jail was registered as Criminal Writ Petition and accordingly we had appointed Adv.Miss,S.S.Adkine, learned counsel to represent the petitioner in this petition. The limited grievance of the petitioner is that as the petitioner has completed 14 years of actual imprisonment, the petitioner had applied for his pre-mature release and the said 2 Criminal W.P. No.1033 of 2010 application has not been decided by the respondents. 3. On notice of this petition being issued, the respondents have filed their affidavit in reply and in the affidavit in reply, particularly at para no.6, it is stated that the application of the petitioner would be decided in accordance with Law within the period of 2 months. We accept the aforesaid statement as undertaking to the Court. In the light of the said statement therefore, we allow this petition and make rule absolute as per the statement of the respondent at para no.6 of the affidavit in reply. 4. This petition is accordingly allowed. Rule is made absolute as indicated above with no order as to costs. We quantify the fees payable to the learned counsel appointed on behalf of the petitioner at Rs.1,500/-. (A.V.POTDAR, J.) (P.V.HARDAS, J.) khs/DEC. 2010/cri.w.p.1033-10