The Delhi High Court accepted the parole application of a person convicted in a case related to rape and murder, saying that just because a criminal has been in jail for more than 20 years, he cannot be treated as a ‘slave’.
Justice Nina Bansal Krishna said that it cannot be ignored that the petitioner has spent more than two decades in jail for his crime.
Justice Krishna said in his judgment of 16 April, “He cannot be denied the fundamental right of life. Just because he is imprisoned in jail, he cannot be treated as a ‘slave’, which does not have any basic fundamental human rights. Now the time has come for jail officials to show a little more sensitivity to deal with such cases.
In the case of rape and murder, the convicted man had moved the High Court to request to be released on parole for four weeks. During the hearing on the petition, the High Court noted that the petitioner had attempted suicide in 2022 and asked the jail authorities to show ‘a little more sensitivity’.
The High Court released the petitioner on parole for the desired period. The court said that it hoped the jail authorities that they would have ‘little more efforts’ to verify the base given in it instead of calling the petitioner’s parole application as normal. The High Court said that this person, who is facing life imprisonment, is poor and he wants parole to fulfill his social and family responsibilities.
