STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH Vs. MOHAN SINGH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) These appeals by special leave impugn the judgments and orders of Division Benches of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh. The High Court allowed several writ petitions and directed the respondent State to give to the writ petitioners the benefit of a special remission which the State had restricted to prisoners belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and to female prisoners.

(2.) The remission was granted on the occasion of Republic Day, 1978, under the provisions of Section 432(1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. In clause (i) certain general remissions were granted, with which we are not concerned. Clause (ii) dealt with the special remission and read thus:

(3.) The principal judgment is in the first appeal. It was followed in the other appeals.