1 mst IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.2178 OF 2011 Sham Bhanudas Sonawane Petitioner versus The State of Maharashtra Respondent Petitioner through jail. V.B.Konde-Deshmukh, APP for State. CORAM : A.M.KHANWILKAR AND P.D.KODE, JJ. DATE : 26th August 2011 PC : 1. This petition is filed through jail. The petitioner seeks grant of 30 days parole to meet his wife who is stated to be suffering from various ailments. As per the rules, competent authority has power to decide the request for grant of parole made by a convict. Accordingly, we dispose of this petition with a direction that the competent authority to treat the present petition as an application filed by the convict and consider the same on its own merits in accordance with law. The application of the petitioner shall be decided as expeditiously as possible and in any event not later than six weeks from today. A copy of this order be forwarded to the petitioner who is in jail for information. (P.D.KODE, J.) (A.M.KHANWILKAR, J.)