1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 286 OF 2010 Dulharsing Daulatsing Jarhade ...Petitioner Versus The State of Maharashtra and others ...Respondents ..... Miss. Sadaf Quazi, (appointed) advocate for the petitioner Mr. N.R. Shaikh, A.P.P. for respondents ..... CORAM: S.B. DESHMUKH & S.S. SHINDE, JJ. DATED: 23RD APRIL, 2010 PER COURT:- 1 We heard learned counsel Miss. Sadaf Quazi, (appointed) for the petitioner and Mr. Shaikh, learned A.P.P. for the respondents. 2 Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. Heard finally by consent of the parties. 3 The written communication of the prisoner petitioner is treated as writ petition by this Court. Counsel Miss. Quazi is appointed to represent the cause of the petitioner. It is not in dispute that the petitioner is convicted for the offence punishable under Section 302 of I.P.C. by the competent Court. We have seen the date of the judgment of the trial 2 Court. According to the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner was arrested on 21.12.2003. The petitioner seeks furlough leave or in the alternate direction to decide the application made by the petitioner dated 8.12.2009, seeking furlough leave. 4 Mr. Shaikh, learned A.P.P. points out the averments made in the affidavit in reply filed by the respondent-State. The said affidavit is sworn in by one Bharat Madhukar Bhosale, Additional Superintendent, Aurangabad Central Prison, Aurangabad. After considering the submissions advanced before the Court, in our view the writ petition can be disposed of by directing the respondents to decide the application seeking furlough leave made by the petitioner dated 8.12.2009. 5 In the result, writ petition is partly allowed. The concerned respondent is directed to decide the furlough leave application filed by the petitioner on 8.12.2009 on or before 7.6.2010. Rule made absolute in the above terms. 6. We quantify the legal fees of learned advocate Ms. Sadaf Quazi, appointed by us at Rs.2000/-. ( S. S. SHINDE. J.) (S.B. DESHMUKH, J.) rlj/ 3