Shrikant Bhaucharan Sonekar v. State Of Mah. Thr. Principal Secretary, Ministry Of Home, Mantralaya, Mumbai And Another.

2024:BHC-NAG:11947-DB Order 2110wp700.24

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR.

CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 700/2023.

Shrikant Bhaucharan Sonekar -VERSUSState of Maharashtra and others.

Office notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's Orders or directions and Registrar's orders.

Shri N.P. Singhaniya, Advocate [Appointed] for the Petitioner.

Shri U. Phasate, A.P.P. for Respondents.

CORAM : VINAY JOSHI AND ABHAY J. MANTRI , JJ.

DATE : OCTOBER 21 , 2024.

Heard.

2.

By this petition, the petitioner is seeking to quash the adverse opinion dated 26.04.2023 given by the Sessions Judge and an urge to grant benefit of special remission to the prisoner on account of government resolution dated 03.06.2017.

3.

Undisputedly, the petitioner is convicted for the offence punishable under Section 302 of the Rgd.

Order 2110wp700.24 Indian Penal Code, and has not undergone 13 years of imprisonment so far.

The concerned government resolution puts an initial rider that the prisoner who are convicted for the offence for which death is one of the alternative punishment/ penalty, shall not be released unless he undergoes actual imprisonment of 14 years. The petitioner does not stand to said reason since he has not completed 14 years of actual imprisonment, and therefore, is not entitled for the relief prayed for. 4.

Writ Petition is therefore, dismissed.

We may clarify that the petitioner may apply after completion of 14 years of imprisonment, which shall be considered in accordance with law.

5.

Fees of the appointed Counsel be determined as per Rules.

JUDGE JUDGE Rgd.