Criminal Writ Petition No.693 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Writ Petition No.693 of 2011 Date of Decision: 28.03.2011. Balwant ..Petitioner Versus The State of Haryana and another ..Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr. H.P.S. Aulakh, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ms. Latika Rao, D.A.G. Haryana, for the respondents – State. NAWAB SINGH.J (ORAL) Balwant-petitioner son of Narain Singh is undergoing imprisonment for a period of ten years in case bearing First Information Report No.247 dated July 24th, 1994 under Sections 304-B and 498-A read with Section 34 of Indian Penal Code, Police Station City Bahadurgarh. He is confined in District Jail, Rohtak. He moved application (Annexure P-1) to release him on parole for admission of his children in School on February 16th, 2011 before Superintendent, District Jail, Rohtak but the same has not been decided as on date. 2. In reply filed by the Superintendent, District Jail, Rohtak, it has been averred that the petitioner is not entitled for parole because he has not completed one year's imprisonment after conviction as provided under Rule 4 of the Haryana Good Conduct Prisoner's (Temporary Release) Rules, 2007. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner has urged that the petitioner has completed one year imprisonment after conviction, that is, from April 7th, 1997 to December 15th, 1997 (8 months and 8 days) thereafter his appeal before this Court was dismissed on Criminal Writ Petition No.693 of 2011 2 September 30th, 2010 and he is in custody since then as mentioned in the reply. By calculations, he has already completed one year's imprisonment after conviction. 4. In this view of the matter, Superintendent, District Jail, Rohtak is directed to decide the application (Annexure P-1) of the petitioner to release him on parole for admission of his children in School forthwith, in view of the observations made herein above. 5. Disposed of. (NAWAB SINGH) JUDGE 28.03.2011 neetu