JUDGMENT :

SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI, J.

1. Heard Mr. Rakesh Kumar and Mr. Lukesh Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioners and Mr. Ashok Kumar Yadav, Mr. P.A.S. Pati, Mr. P.C. Sinha, Ms. Rashmi Lal and Mr. Gaurav Raj, learned counsel for the respondent-State.

2. Since common questions of law and fact are involved in all these writ applications, the same are being disposed of by this common order.

3. The petitioners are aggrieved by the decision of the State Sentence Review Board.

W.P. (Cr.) No. 14 of 2021

4. The petitioner is aggrieved by the notification No. 11/bandi vividh-07/2019-2987, dated 20.08.2020 issued by the Joint Secretary of Department of Home, Jail and Disaster Management, Government of Jharkhand, Ranchi, whereby the claim of premature release of the petitioner has been rejected.

5. The facts enumerated in the present writ application is that the petitioner was convicted by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, FTC-VII, Hazaribagh in connection with S.T. No. 403 of 2002, corresponding to G.R. No. 1653 of 2001 arising out of Ramgarh P.S. Case No. 201 of 2001 for the offence under Sections 364, 302, 201/34 of the Indian Penal Code vide judgment dated 07.03.2006 and was sentenced