Manoj Kumar Singh vs State (Govt. of NCT of Delhi)

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2023 Supreme(Del) 2632

RAJNISH BHATNAGAR
Manoj Kumar Singh – Appellant
Versus
State (Govt. of NCT of Delhi) – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
Mr. Akshay Bhandari and Mr. Anmol Sachdeva, Advocates, for the Petitioner.
Mr. Sanjeev Bhandari, ASC (Criminal) for the State with Mr. Kunal Mittal and Mr. Saurabh Tanwar, Advocates and with Insp. Karmveer Singh, PS Nand Nagri.

JUDGMENT

Rajnish Bhatnagar J. (Oral)--By way of this petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India read with Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the petitioner has challenged the impugned order dated 03.12.2022 whereby the application for furlough was dismissed and further seeking his release on furlough for a period of 3 weeks.

2. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner was denied furlough vide impugned order dated 03.12.2022 only on the ground that the petitioner did not surrender when he was released on parole in the year 2012. It is further submitted that the conduct of the petitioner in jail is good and he was also awarded good conduct certificates by jail authorities. It is further submitted that necessary requisite for granting furlough is 3 good conduct remissions which the petitioner has already earned, in fact, the petitioner has earned 7 good conduct remissions even after his re-arrest. It is further submitted that furlough is allowed even after the conviction in various cases. It is also submitted that the alleged crime committed by the petitioner were way back in 2015 and thereafter petitioner has maintained

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