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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 19.02.2026 Judgment pronounced on: 27.02.2026 Judgment uploaded on: 28.02.2026 + W.P. (CRL) 2980/2025 AMAR PAL .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Shiv Chopra, (DHCLSC), Mr. Shravan Pandey, Ms. Surbhi Arora and Ms. Shivani Kaushik, Advocates versus STATE (NCT OF DELHI) .....Respondent Through: Mr. Amol Sinha, ASC for the State with Mr. Ashvini Kumar, Mr Kshitiz Garg and Mr Anshul Sharma, Advocates CORAM:

HON’BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA

JUDGMENT

DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J

1. By way of this writ petition, the petitioner seeks issuance of writ in the nature of certiorari or any other appropriate writ, direction, order for quashing the rejection order no. F.10(3800430)/CJ/LEGAL/ PHQ/2025/4376, dated 05.08.2025, passed by the Director General (Prisons) and further seeks grant of furlough for a period of three weeks.

2. The facts, as apparent from the records, are that the petitioner herein is presently confined in Central Jail No. 2, Tihar, New Delhi, in connection with a case arising out of FIR No. 560/2008, registered at Police Station Sangam Vihar, Delhi for offences punishable under Sections 376/506 of the Indian Pen