RAM KRIPAL SINGH Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) LIST has been revised. No body is present on behalf of the petitioner to press this petition. Sri Arvind Kumar Tripathi, learned Addl. Government Advocate, who appears for the respondents, has been heard.

(2.) BY means of this writ petition, under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, Sri Ram Kripal Singh, the petitioner, beseeches this Court to issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of Habeas Carpus commanding the superintendent, Central Jail, Naini, Allahabad to produce him before this Court and direct him to set him at liberty forthwith.

(3.) THE Court is afraid, the contention of the petitioner is wholly wonky. THE question as to what is the period of a sentence for life imprisonment is no longer res nova or res integra. More than three decades ago the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India answered, the question thus : A sentence of transporatation of life or imprisonment for life must prima facie be treated as transportation or imprisonment for the whole of the remaining period of the convicted person's natural life "(See G. V. Godse v. THE State of Maharashtra, AIR 1961 SC 600).