P number entitled to have their cases companysidered by the State Government for pre mature release under Para 516 B of the Punjab Haryana Jail Manual.
The three petitioners Kartar Singh, Mukhtiar Singh and Baljit Singh on companyviction under sec.
Indian Penal Code were sentenced to imprisonment for life, the first two on 20th February, 1973 and the last on 17th September, 1975 and each one of then is at present undergoing his sentence in one or the other jails at Hissar in the State of Haryana.
was argued at length by companynsel on either side at the Bar we have decided to address ourselves to that question without getting lost in the factual dispute as to whether even after reckoning the periods of their under trial detention the petitioners are or are .
ORlGlNAL JURISDlCcTlON Writ Petition Crl.
The facts giving rise to the aforesaid question may be stated.
3226 of 1981.
K .G. Bhagat and R.N. Poddar for the Respondent.
The petitioners have pointed out that in Maru Ram v. Union of India Anr.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by TULZAPURKAR, J. This writ petition raises the question whether persons sentenced to imprisonment for life are entitled to set off their under trial period of detention against their sentence under sec.
428 of the Criminal Procedure Code ?
