Rajeev Ranjan Prasad, J.—This writ application has been preferred by a life convict who had been sentenced to death by the learned trial court but in appeal the Hon’ble Division Bench of this Court has commuted his death sentence to one of life imprisonment. Being a life convict, the petitioner has spent 22 years of imprisonment with remission at the time of filing of the writ application. He made a request to the competent authority to allow him to go on premature release, however, his request for premature release has been rejected by the Bihar State Remission Board vide minute of the meeting dated 27.01.2020.

2. In the aforementioned background the petitioner has prayed for the following reliefs:—

“I. To issue an appropriate writ, order or direction in the nature of certiorari for quashing the decisions taken by State Punishment Remission Council (Here in after referred as ‘Council) Dated 27.01.2020 with respect to the petitioner whereby and where under the case of Remission and release of the petitioner was rejected on non est grounds without looking in to the facts and the c