IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI W.P.(PIL) No.6651 of 2025 -----

Court on its Own Motion Versus The State of Jharkhand and others … … Respondents -----

CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUJIT NARAYAN PRASAD HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE ARUN KUMAR RAI -------

For the Resp.-State : Mr. Shray Mishra, AC to AG For the Resp.-High Court of Jharkhand : Mr. Amit Kumar Das, Advocate -------

Order No.5/Dated: 10 ^th December, 2025

1. In pursuance of order dated 27.11.2025, counter-affidavit has been filed on behalf of the State. It has been stated therein, by way of a tabular chart, as reflected in paragraph no. 8 to the counter-affidavit regarding number of released prisoners, physical verification of released prisoners, total number of prisoners benefitted from different government’s schemes and total number of released prisoners who died, for the reference the tabular chart as reflected in paragraph no.8 to the counter-affidavit is being reproduced herein under:

Number of Released Prisoners 670 Physical verification of released prisoners 558 Total number of prisoners benefitted from 470 different Govt. schemes Total number of released prisoners who 41 died

2. The figure shown in the aforesaid tabular cha