-1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 42 OF 2009 Parvez Mohd. Zulfikar Qureshi ...Petitioner vs. The State of Maharashtra and others ...Respondents Mrs. Aisha Zubair Ansari for the petitioners. Mrs. U.V. Kejariwal, Additional Public Prosecutor, for the State. CORAM: BILAL NAZKI & ANOOP V. MOHTA , JJ. DATE: FEBRUARY 04, 2009 P.C. The petitioner was arrested in February, 1993 after facing the trial. He was convicted for various offences on 1st June, 2007 and sentenced to life imprisonment. During the trial, he was on bail for different periods on eleven occasions. Bail was granted at a time even for six weeks and there was no adverse report that the petitioner-prisoner tried to create any law and order problem or cause any harm to the witnesses. After his conviction he filed an application for grant of furlough leave which has been rejected on the ground that he was involved in a bomb blast case and, therefore, he could not be granted furlough leave. 2. We feel that there has been no ground whatsoever in the report of the police on which application for furlough leave could have been rejected. -2- Therefore, we allow this writ petition and direct that the petitioner be released on furlough leave for a period of 14 days, in addition to the usual terms to be imposed by the Superintendent of the Jail. He is further required to appear before the Mahim Police Station every day at 10.00 a.m. During his leave of furlough. Petition is accordingly disposed of. BILAL NAZKI, J. ANOOP V. MOHTA, J.