A large number of criminal writ petitions, many of them based on letters, were grouped together as petitions by under trial prisoners and certain orders were passed from time to time for the release of certain prisoners on bail on their executing personal bonds for appearance without any monetary obligations.
A detailed order was passed on February 12, 1979 by a Division Bench of this Court on a habeas companypus petition filed in regard to the state of affairs in Bihar.
This was followed by orders passed from time to time which have been reported as Re Hussainara Khatoon Ors.
