( 1 ) RULE. Service of rule is waived by Mr. P. R. Abichandani, learned APP for the respondents. Having regard to the facts stated in this application, this application is taken up for final hearing today.

( 2 ) THE petitioner - convict - Sarfuddim Suleman Fakir, who is undergoing different sentences including sentence of life imprisonment and who is lodged in Central Jail, Sabarmati, Ahmedabad has, by forwarding this application to this Court through Dy. Supdt. , Central Jail, Ahmedabad requested this Court to pass appropriate orders directing all the sentences to run concurrently in following two cases. [1] special Case No. 77 of 2001 :- the present petitioner was accused No. 4. At the end of the trial, the learned special Judge (Atro.), Ahmedabad (Rural), Ahmedabad, by rendering his judgment dated 24. 10. 2001 convicted the present petitioner (accused No. 4) along with the other co-accused. By that judgment, the present petitioner (accused No. 4) was convicted for the offences punishable under Section 3 (1) (x) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, Section 394 read with Section 114 and Section 120-B of Indian Penal Cod