IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Crl. Misc. No. M-4141 of 2010 DATE OF DECISION : 15.02.2010 Khem Chand ... PETITIONER Versus The State of Haryana and another ..... RESPONDENTS CORAM :- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JORA SINGH Present: Mr. H.P.S. Aulakh, Advocate, for the petitioner. * * * SATISH KUMAR MITTAL , J. ( Oral ) The petitioner, who is undergoing life imprisonment in District Jail, Rohtak, has filed the instant petition for issuing direction to the respondents to consider and decide his request for temporary release for agriculture purpose under the provisions of the Haryana Good Conduct Prisoners (Temporary Release) Act, 1988. It is the case of the petitioner that he is fully eligible for temporary release on the aforesaid ground and in this regard, the Gram Panchayat, Village Dawla, District Jhajjar, has recommended his case for temporary release. Copy of the recommendation has been annexed with the petition as Annexure P-1. It is further the case of the petitioner that his said request has been duly entered by the jail authorities in Form A-1 and Crl. Misc. No. M-4141 of 2010 -2- according to the Rules, the said request has to be decided within seven days, but the respondents are not considering and deciding the same in accordance with law. After hearing learned counsel for the petitioner and going through the contents of the petition, without issuing notice of motion, at this stage, as it will un-necessary delay the matter, we dispose of this petition with a direction to the respondents to consider the said request of the petitioner in accordance with law and decide the same expeditiously, preferably within a period of one month from the receipt of the certified copy of this order. ( SATISH KUMAR MITTAL ) JUDGE February 15, 2010 ( JORA SINGH ) ndj JUDGE