1. The Superintendent of Prisons, Prisons Headquarters, Tihar Jail has filed Status Report giving offence wise detention period of under-trial inmates lodged in Tihar Jail. It deals with as many as 38 categories of cases. However, in the present case, we are not concerned with all these categories.

2. Mr. Vijay Aggarwal, the petitioner-in-person, has drawn our attention to the judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of R.D. Upadhyay Vs. State of A.P, and Ors, (1996) 3 SCC 422 in which the Court inter alia passed the following orders for grant of bail to under-trials :

"3. So far as the cases regarding attempt to murder are concerned, we direct that the cases which are pending for more than 2 years, the under-trials shall be released on ball forthwith to the satisfaction of the respective trial courts. Persons facing trail for Kidnapping, Theft, Cheating, Arms Act, Counterfeiting, Customs, under Section 326 IPC, under Section 324 IPC, one year, shall be released on bail forthwith to the satisfaction of the trial courts concerned. There may be cases where the under-tr