Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 932 · Decided 6 September 2022
Rashidul Jafar @ Chota v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 932 · [2022] 8 S.C.R. 475
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 336/2019
- Decided
- 6 September 2022
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, HIMA KOHLI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 21, 32, 161
Headnote
Remission: Pre-mature release - Remission plea of five hundred and twelve convicts undergoing a sentence of imprisonment for life in the State of UP - In 2021, amendment brought to the Standing Policy Regarding Premature Release of Life Convicts of 2018 - Earlier policy of the so as to provide that a convict undergoing imprisonment for life would not be released until the age of sixty years is attained - Challenge to, on the ground that the plea for premature release must be considered on the basis of the law as it stood on the date of conviction and that a
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