High Court extends parole granted to convicts

Chennai

A division bench comprising Justice M Sathyanarayanan and Justice Abdul Quddhose extended the time based on the Government Order issued by the Revenue and Disaster Management on May 31 extending the restrictions.

However, noting that the additional public prosecutor has already been directed to get instructions on putting the life convicts who are on parole/leave back in prisons, the bench held, “If convicts, especially the life convicts, remain at large on account of interim orders of parole/leave granted by this court, there is every likelihood of retaliatory attack in the form of grievous injury/death also.”

The bench also noted that almost all undertrial prisoners had been enlarged on bail and the prisons in the State were also not in full capacity owing to the orders of the Supreme Court and the High Court.