JUDGMENT :

S. Vaidyanathan, G. Jayachandran, JJ.

(Prayer: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, for issuance of a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, to call for the records pertaining to G.O.(D)No.227, Home (Prison - IV) Department/2017, dated 23.02.2017, passed by the first respondent, which arbitrarily rejected the detenu's premature release from life imprisonment, quash the same as illegal and consequently, direct the respondents to produce the detenu viz., Veera Bhaarathi, S/o. Ponniah, aged about 46 / 2017 years, presently confined at Palayamkottai Central Prison, bearing L.Ct.No.3334, in person before this Court from their illegal custody, and to set him at liberty forthwith under the provisions of Articles 14, 20 and 21 of the Constitution of India.)

1. The petitioner herein P.Veera Bhaarathi, a life convict, has approached the Government for premature release from life imprisonment. His request was declined by the Government vide impugned Government Order in G.O.(D)No.227, Home (Prison - IV) Department, dated 23.02.2017. The petitioner challenging th