1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH : NAGPUR CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.160 OF 2009 (Anurath Maroti Wakudkar vs. State of Maharashtra and another) __________________________________________________________________ Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. CORAM : D.D. SINHA AND P.B. VARALE, JJ. DATED : AUGUST 7, 2009 Heard Shri Dhabe, learned Counsel for the petitioner, and Shri Mujumdar, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the respondents. The petition is directed against the order dated 9/8/2006 passed by the Home Department whereby the petitioner has been categorised under Clause 1(d) of the 14 years’ guidelines framed on 11.4.2008 and is required to undergo imprisonment for a period of 26 years. The petitioner has already completed 23 years 9 months and 14 days as on 31.3.2009. We have considered the contentions 2 canvassed by the learned Counsel for the parties and perused the impugned order. There is nothing placed before this Court in order to hold that categorisation done by the State is not based on the observations made by the trial Court in the judgment. Even otherwise, the petitioner is likely to be released soon from the prison on completing 26 years of imprisonment. For the reasons stated hereinabove, the petition suffers from lack of merit and hence, the same is dismissed. JUDGE JUDGE khj