RAJASTHAN STATE LEGAL SERVICES AUTHORITY Vs. CHIEF SECRETARY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) learned amicus curiae has submitted four charts, which, in fact, are based on the information supplied by the respondents with their counter affidavit at Annexure-R/1 and R/2. Copy thereof has been supplied to learned Advocate General in court today.

(2.) There are 202 such convicts, who are about and above the age of 60 years in the various prisons of the State. The respondents in Annexure-R/1 filed in their counter affidavit have provided the details of 231 prisoners, out of whom 29 have been released. Of those 29, 6 have been granted permanent parole, 15 were granted bail and 7 have been released on account of either completion of sentence or acquittal and 1 has died. There thus remain only 202 convicts, details of which have been furnished in chart-1, provided by Shri V.R. Bajwa, learned amicus curiae. This chart-1 has been prepared on the basis of particulars furnished by respondents in Annexure-R/2 of their counter affidavit and most of the prisoners, barring a very few, are more than 60 years of age.

(3.) In chart-3, 31 persons, out of 138 prisoners referred to above, are in jail for more than 14 years including remission. However, 7 prisoners out of them, as detailed out in chart-4 are those who have completed actual period of 14 years' in incarceration without the remission.