India, Feb. 14 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday rejected the release plea of a double-murder convict, noting that the President commuted his death penalty to life imprisonment without remission.

Sunil Baban Pingale, convicted in 1997 by the Pune Sessions Court for killing his mother-in-law and sister-in-law, sought release on the ground that he had completed over 28 years in prison - as required under the category in which the jail authorities had placed him.

A division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and Shyam Chandak dismissed his petition, observing that the Presidential pardon commuting his death sentence to life imprisonment specified that he must remain in prison for the remainder of his life without any remission.

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