“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive”.

—Dalai Lama

These applications, made under sub-Section (1) of Section 389 Cr.P.C., seeking suspension of sentences, passed against the appellants-applicants, have raised some questions of great significance, the most important of all the these questions being whether it is permissible, in law, to temporarily suspend sentence of an appellant, pending disposal of his application seeking suspension of his sentence, and, upon such suspension, whether the Court can allow the appellant to go on bail temporarily until the time his application, seeking suspension of sentence, is decided either in his favour or against him. An equally important question is whether an appellant, whose application seeking suspension of sentences stands rejected, can apply for temporary suspension of his sentence, so as to enable him to perform some religious rites or ceremonies or to receive proper medical treatment, then requisite medical treatment is not possible to receive in prison, etc. Yet another question, not less important than the preceding ones, is whether enforcement of human rights or humanit