JUDGMENT

Rajendra Babu, J.-This writ petition filed under Article 32 of the Constitution seeks for the release of the petitioner who is undergoing imprisonment for life after having been convicted under Section 302 IPC read with Section 34 IPC. The claim of the petitioner is that he has undergone the following period of actual sentence and earned remissions :-

 YEAR MONTHS DAYS

(a) From 25.6.1982 To    17 10 6 1.5.2000 including under   the trial period confine- ment

(b) Remissions earned or 5 8 29 Govt. Remissions granted   upto 31.12.1999

(c) Total sentence includ- 23 7 5   ing remissions

2. The petitioner also claims that under Section 61(1) of the West Bengal Correctional Services Act XXXII of 1992, which on Presidential assent being given came to force with effect from April 14, 2000, he is entitled to be released inasmuch as he had serve