FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE Cri. WRIT PETITION NO. 589 OF 2001 Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court' s orders or directions and Registrar's orders. Court's or Judge's orders Mrs. Anamika Malhotra advocate appointed (absent). Mr. Konde Deshmukh APP for Respondents CORAM: B.H. MARLAPALLE & MRS. ROSHAN DALVI JJ. DATE: 22/2/2006 P.C. The petitioner is convicted and is undergoing sentence sentence in the Nagpur Central Prison as Convict no. 5498 and Convict No. C/2334 at the Central Prison, Nasik Road. He states that he he had submitted an application on 14.3.2002. He had already completed 11 years of his sentence and was released on furlough leave three times. He has applied for furlough leave. This application has been pending for the last 4 years before this court and it would be therefore appropriate that the application for furlough leave is considered afresh by the competent authority, in case the petitioner is still a convict. We therefore direct the DIG Prisons, Nagpur Division to consider the petitioner's application for furlough leave in case the petitioner is still undergoing the sentence as per the rules applicable and the decision shall be communicated to the petitioner within 4 weeks from today. The learned APP to forward a copy of this order to the DIG Prisons, Nagpur Division as well as DIG Prisons, Aurangabad, forthwith. Petition disposed of in terms of the above order. (MRS. ROSHAN DALVI J.) (B.H. MARLAPALLE J.)