1. In this writ petition the power of the State Government to suspend the sentence and release prisoners on parole when their appeal against the conviction is pending in this Court is questioned; rather an extraordinary situation releasing prisoners in total disregard of statutory rules is noticed in this case.

2. The petitioner states that he belongs to Yarlagadda village and respondents 3 to 8 and fourteen others were charged for murder and the Sessions Judge Machilipatnam convicted respondents 3 to 8 under S. 302 read with S. 149 I.P.C. and for other charges and sentenced to life imprisonment and the said accused who were convicted preferred an appeal Crl. A.241/83 on the file of this Court and the State Government preferred an appeal against the other accused who are acquitted. The request of the accused to release them on bail pending the appeal was rejected on 25-3-1983 by this C