JUDGMENT

The prayers in this Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India are as follows:-

i. Issue a writ in the nature of Mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction to the 2nd respondent to lift the condition whereby the prisoner is restricted from entering into Ottapalam Police Station limits.

ii. To grant any such other and further relief as this Hon’ble court may deem fit in the facts and circumstances of the case to meet the ends of justice.

iii. To dispense with the production of English Translation of vernacular documents in the writ petition.

2. The petitioner is the mother of a convict. The petitioner’s son by name Vinod, S/o. Radhakrishnan (Convict No.208/2023) is undergoing imprisonment in S.C. No. 698/2019 on the file of the Addl. Sessions Court, Ottapalam, Palakkad, at the Central Prison and Correctional Home, Thavanoor. The convict has been granted ordinary leave as per Ext. P2 order. The grievance of the petitioner is that, while granting ordinary leave, the convict has been restrained from entering the territorial limits of Ottapalam Police Station, where his family house is situated. The grievance of the petitioner is that, in v