Parole Issue?

 In a rare admission about the judiciary’s failure to keep dreaded criminals and gangsters confined to jails, Chief Justice S A Bobde  conceded that ….Grant of parole by a court of law to gangster Vikas Dubey  despite 65 FIRs pending against him reflected institutional failure.

Parole is defined as a temporary or permanent release of a prisoner before the competition of his sentence on the promise of good behaviour.

The grant of Parole in India is administered by the rules made under the Prison Act, 1894 and Prisoner Act, 1900.

Each state in India has its own parole rules with some minor alternations from each other.

As Tihar Jail, the country’s largest prison, announced plans on March 23, 2020, to release on parole or interim bail some 3,000 inmates who are not “hardened criminals”, other prisons in the country may follow, having been directed by the Supreme Court (SC) to determine which categories of prisoners could be temporarily released to control the spread of COVID-19. 

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