1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH : NAGPUR CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 61 OF 2011 (Sayed Mohd. Hanif vs. State of Maharashtra & Anr.) Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. Shri S.M. Puranik, Advocate (appointed) for the petitioner. Shri T.A. Mirza, APP for the respondents. ….. CORAM : MRS. V.K. TAHILRAMANI & M.L. TAHALIYANI, JJ. APRIL 08, 2011. Heard Shri Puranik, learned counsel for the petitioner and Shri Mirza, learned APP for the respondents. The petitioner has preferred this application in relation to diet being supplied to him. The petitioner was in Nagpur Central Prison. According to the petitioner, as he has been sentenced to death, he has to be given special diet i.e. he should be given Grade I food, hence he has prayed that directions be given to the Respondent i.e. Superintendent of Nagpur Central Prison, to provide him Grade I food. According to the petitioner, he should be given 100 gms. onion, 100 gms. tomato, curd and salad in addition to Grade I food. Food is provided to the prisoners as per the Maharashtra Prison (Diet for Prisoners) Rules, 1970. 2 These rules have been last amended in 2005 and are now called as the Maharashtra Prison (Diet for Prisoners) (Second Amendment) Rules, 2005. These Rules have been made by the Government of Maharashtra in exercise of the powers conferred under the Prisons Act, 1894. As per the rules, no special diet is provided for a prisoner who has been awarded death sentence and the same diet is provided to death convicts as is provided to the other prisoners in the jail. Moreover, the petitioner has now been transferred to Yerwada Prison, Pune and at present he is not confined in Central Prison, Nagpur, hence, no case is made out for entertaining this petition. Petition is rejected. The advocate appointed for the petitioner be paid fees as per rules. Office to communicate this order to the petitioner, who is in Yerwada Central Prison, Pune. JUDGE JUDGE *GS.