JUDGMENT :

In the following writ petitions :

W. P. No. 915/82 (Buta Singh)

W. P. No. 917/82 (Durga s/o Tikam)

W. P. No. 921/82 (Ajit Singh)

W. P. No. 922/82 (Darshan Lal)

W. P. No. 923/82 (Vijay Kumar)

W. P. No. 924/82 (Jagdish)

W. P. No. 925/82 (Bhagwan Jha)

W. P. No. 926/82 (Inder Singh)

W. P. No. 927/82 (Surinder Singh)

W. P. No. 928/82 (Joginder Singh)

W. P. No. 929/82 (Roshan Lal)

W. P. No. 934/82 (Ram Tahl)

W. P. No. 935/82 (Mohd. Sulaiman)

W. P. No. 936/82 (Gurmit Singh)

W. P. No. 937/82 (Sant Lal alias Pappu)

W. P. No. 938/82 (Bhola Nath)

the cases of these petitioners were recommended for release by the Superintendent of Jail on their completion of 10 years imprisonment inclusive of remissions since each one of them was aged below 20 years at the date of the commission of the offence. From the affidavit in reply which has been filed in these matters it appears clearly that the only ground on which their release orders have not been passed and consideration of their cases has been deferred is that the Sentence Revising Board is yet to ascertain the date of birth and the proof of each one's age at the date of the commission of the offence. We are informed that the material in this respect w