SURJIT SINGH Vs. STATE OF HARYANA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) ONLY a few facts need to be stated in order to deal with the short question raised in this petition. The petitioner belongs to village Chappar, near Jind, which is a District Headquarter in the State of Haryana. He was tried in a murder case and sentenced to life imprisonment by learned Sessions Judge, Karnal on 29.8.81. Thereafter, he was shifted to Central Jail, Hissar, Central Jail, Ambala and again to Central Jail, Karnal. while at Karnal there was overcrowding in the jail and, therefore, he was again transferred to Central Jail, Ambala in 1983. He made a request that he may be transferred to Central Jail, Karnal or Jind as on the earlier occasion he had been shifted from Central Jail, Ambala on the ground that the climate and the water available at Ambala did not suit his health. Instead of sending him to Karnal or Jind the prisoner was shifted to Central Jail, Hissar. He made an unsuccessful request. He renewed the request which was duly endorsed by the Jail doctor but eventually rejected by the Inspector General, Prisons.

(2.) THROUGH this writ petition, the petitioner has assailed the order of rejection as totally arbitrary.