1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.1537 OF 2009 Sachin Ganpat Badambe .... Petitioner Vs. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. .... Respondents S/Shri N.N. Gavankar i/b Arfan Sait for the Petitioner. Ms A.S. Pai, APP, for the State. CORAM: BILAL NAZKI & A.R. JOSHI, JJ. DATED: AUGUST 31, 2009 P.C: Once prisoners are granted parole or furlough by virtue of a circular issued earlier, the sureties are required to appear before the jail authorities of the jail where the prisoners are lodged. Presumably, this is done to facilitate the release of the prisoners. But in certain cases it works against the prisoners as the prisoners are lodged in a jail which is far away from their ordinary place of residence. So the 2 relatives/sureties of such prisoners find it difficult to go to the jail to give surety. As in the present case, the petitioner is lodged in a jail in Kolhapur but he belongs to Mumbai and his surety is from Mumbai. On instructions from Shri S.C. Mondkar, Deputy Secretary (Home), the learned APP submits that sureties of prisoners can be accepted in a jail nearer to the place of residence of the surety. In the present case as the surety is at Mumbai, the same will be accepted at Mumbai for the release of the petitioner from the jail in Kolhapur. In view of this assurance, which is accepted, we do not think any further order is required to be passed in the matter. The petition is accordingly disposed of. BILAL NAZKI, J. A.R. JOSHI, J.