KHILLU Vs. STATE OF HARYANA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) NOTICE of motion.

(2.) ON the asking of the Court, Mr. S.S. Mor, Senior Deputy Advocate Gene, ral, Haryana accepts notice on behalf of the respondents.

(3.) THOUGH the grant of parole is not a right vested in a prisoner, it also cannot be said that a parole plea can be declined on the basis of a vague apprehension indicated by the District Magistrate. The principle of transparency validates the view that the authority competent to consider the request of a prisoner under incarceration must announce to the applicant the reasons for disallowance thereof. The impugned order deserves invalidation as it fails the test of being self-contained and transparent.