Judgement

B. C. RAY, J. : - The petitioners who are life convicts in this writ petition have assailed a D.O. Letter No. 4665/1983GI/G4/R. 10-84 dated 24-4-1985 issued by the respondent No. 3, Inspector General of Prisons, Haryana, Chandigarh intimating to the Superintendent of Jail that convicts who are on bail and whose sentences are suspended are excluded from the remissions systems in view of the provisions of Para 637 of the Punjab Jail Manual on the ground that the aforesaid letter purports to deprive the petitioners from the benefit of remissions of 19 months and 12 days granted to them during the period they were on bail, while counting the total period of sentence including remissions undergone by them in order to consider their cases of premature release from imprisonment.

2. The petitioner No. 1, Jai Prakash was convicted by the District and Sessions Judge, Bhiwani, on December 4, 1975 under S. 302 of the Indian Penal Code and he was awarded life imprisonment. Against this judgment and order of the Sessions Judge he preferred an appeal before the High Court of Punjab and Haryana and he was granted bail on 12-1-1976. This appeal, however, was dismissed on 28-9-1978 and he wa