Honble CHAUHAN, J.–Mr. Martin Luther King Jr., the great American Civil Libertarian once said. ``I have a dream to be free at last, to be free at last, to be free at last. The promise of liberty is not just enshrined in the Constitution of India, but the dream of liberty is also engrained in every soul. Even a convicted prisoner, incarcerated within the strong walls of a jail, shackled to the chains, dreams of freedom at last. Such was the hope of the Petitioner after he completed 1/4 of his life sentence. He had prayed that he too should be released on regular parole of twenty days under Rule 9 of the Rajasthan Prisons (Release on Parole) Rules, 1958 (henceforth to be referred to as `the Parole Rules for short). However, the hope was short lived. Vide Order dated 14.6.04, the Advisory Committee, constituted under the Parole Rules, rejected the Petitioners case for regular parole. Hence the petition before us.

(2). Mr. Suresh Sahni, the Learned Counsel for the Petitioner, has challenged the said Order on four accounts. Firstly, the Advisory Committee has rejected the Petitioners parole on the ground that although the Petitioner had sought regular parole on the ground of operation of

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