JUDGMENT :

Sumeet Goel, J.

This case has a chequered history and sordid saga of arbitrary and colourable exercise of administrative power by the respondents, in application whereof, the request for grant of parole made by the petitioner has been declined.

2. Facts germane to the adjudication of issue in the present case are that the petitioner is confined in Central Jail Shri Goindwal Sahib, undergoing conviction of life imprisonment, in case FIR No.93 dated 09.09.2008, registered at Police Station Khamano, District Fatehgarh Sahib, under Sections 302, 363, 376, 201, 177, 34 IPC. He is convicted in the said case vide judgment dated 25.02.2010 passed by the Court of Sh. P.S. Virk, Additional Sessions Judge, Fatehgarh Sahib.

3. The uncontroverted averments borne out from the pleadings in the criminal writ petition that petitioner has availed 14 paroles peacefully while undergoing his conviction in the above case. It is pleaded that after the amendment in Section 2(aa) of the Punjab Good Conduct Prisoners (Temporary Release) Amendment Act, 2015 notified on 07.01.2016 the petitioner was nonsuited for the grant of parole by the Jail Authorities in view of the said amendment. It is pertinent