IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH SHIMLA CWP No.693 of 2003 Date of decision: 14.7.2008 Narinder Singh & others Petitioners Versus State of H.P.& others Respondents Coram The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Deepak Gupta,J. The Hon’ble Mr. Justice V.K.Ahuja, J. Whether approved for reporting1? . For the petitioners: Mr.Aman Sood, Advocate. For the respondents: Mr. Rajesh Mandhotra, Dy.Advocate General. Deepak Gupta, J.(oral) By means of this petition, the petitioners, who are all inmates of Model Central Jail Nahan, have prayed that the H.P.Good Conduct Prisoner’s (Temporary Release) Act, 1968 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’) be interpreted properly and this Court may sort out the confusion between the jail inmates on one hand and the jail authorities on the other. We normally would not entertain such a prayer in a writ petition. A Writ petition has to be filed in regard to a specific complaint with specific points and pleas. This Court cannot start interpreting Acts and Rules in a vaccum or in hypothetical situations. In fact the provisions of the aforesaid Act has been considered and interpreted in detail in two judgments by decisions of this Court in Lall Chand vs. State of H.P. and another 1984 Sim.L.C.198 and Kesar Singh Guleria vs. State of H.P. and others 1985 Sim. L.C.105. Most of the provisions of the Act have already been dealt with in detail in the aforesaid two decisions. Whether the reporters of Local Papers may be allowed to see the Judgment? We, therefore, dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the respondents to process the application(s) of all the jail inmates in accordance with the provisions of the Act, the rules framed thereunder and in the light of the decisions of this Court in the aforesaid two cases. We would only like to add one further direction that the applications made by the inmates of the jail for grant of temporary release should be dealt with expeditiously and as far as possible within a period of two months from the date of making of the application. The petition is disposed of in the aforesaid terms. (Deepak Gupta),J. 14th July, 2008 (V.K.Ahuja),J. (sds)