IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 300 OF 2009 Prashant Mahadeo Chavan ...Petitioner Vs. The State of Maharashtra ...Respondent Mr. Madhukar Dalvi for the Petitioner. Mrs. U.V.Kejariwal, APP for State. CORAM : BILAL NAZKI & A.R.JOSHI, JJ DATED : 12th FEBRUARY, 2009. P.C. Heard the learned counsel for the Petitioner as well as the Public Prosecutor. With their consent the matter is disposed of at this stage. The Petitioner is serving life sentence. He applied for parole in 2007 which was rejected. Thereafter he filed a Petition in this Court which was allowed by an order dated 22nd January, 2007. He again applied in 2008 for furlough which was rejected on the ground that while he was released earlier, his brother was engaged in some quarrel with somebody else and for that non-cognizable offence was lodged. This could hardly be a ground for rejection of the furlough of the prisoner. -2- We set aside the order rejecting the application of the Petitioner and direct that he be released on furlough, subject to usual conditions. (A. R. JOSHI, J.) (BILAL NAZKI, J.)