JUDGMENT

Archana Puri, J. -

CRM-W-647-2021

1. This is an application filed for preponing the date of hearing fixed in the main petition i.e. CRWP-10719-2020.

2. Notice in the application.

3. Mr. Amit Mehta, Senior Deputy Advocate General, Punjab, accepts notice on behalf of the respondents.

4. In view of the averments made in the application, same is allowed and main case is taken up for hearing today itself.

CRWP-10719-2020

5. The petitioner has invoked the writ jurisdiction of this Court, thereby making prayer for quashing/setting aside the impugned order dated 24.04.2020 (Annexure P-2) passed by respondent No.2, whereby the parole case of the petitioner has been rejected, and the petitioner has further sought grant of parole under the provisions of Section 3 of the Punjab Good Conduct Prisoner's (Temporary Release) Act, 1962, and amended Act, 2018, on the ground to meet his old aged mother.

6. It is averred in the petition that in pursuance of judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 03.03.2017, the petitioner is undergoing life imprisonment in case bearing FIR No.20 dated 03.03.2015 under Sections 302, 307, 3324 IPC, Police Station City-I, Malerkotla, District Sangrur. Against