"Those who cannot shell out a pound of flesh have no role to play in jails. This is the sad state of prisons ", commented Justice DY Chandrachud on Monday.
The 2 applicants before the High Court were life convicts under 302. The High Court has interpreted the government notification for parole as follows: "This Court has observed that when a prisoner is eligible to get furlough, he has completed three years of jail term and if he is convicted for imprisonment of life, he becomes eligible for consideration of emergency parole under notifcation dated 08.05.2020 and, the jail authority needs to consider all such applications together even when the prisoners have not filed application and the jail authority needs to pass order to the effect as to whether emergency parole can be availed by them or cannot be availed by them"