No parole for arranging son or daughter's marriage, says Alld HC
LUCKNOW, March 29 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has clarified that a convicted prisoner cannot be granted parole merely to fix or arrange their children's marriage. The court also said that prisoners against whom other criminal cases are pending are not legally entitled to parole.
With this observation, the court rejected the petition filed by former MLA Angad Yadav who sought parole. The judgment was passed by the division bench of Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan and Justice Rajeev Bharti recently on the petition of the former MLA who is serving a life sentence in a 1995 murder case.
The court observed that under Rule 1(4)(c), parole cannot be granted to prisoners against whom other cases are pending. The petitioner faces several serious cases, including murder. P6...
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