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No blanket ban on granting parole : court

Staff Reporter

Kochi: A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Tuesday stated that there was no blanket ban on granting parole to prisoners.

The Bench, comprising Justice J.B. Koshy and Justice K. Padmanabhan Nair, while hearing arguments on a case relating to the indiscriminate grant of parole to convicts, said that the Government was creating an impression that the High Court had imposed a total ban on granting parole to convicts and using it as a pretext to deny the facility to certain persons.

The Court had earlier restrained the committee appointed by the Government for the earlier release of prisoners from considering the cases in which the life convicts had not completed 14 years of imprisonment until further orders from the Court.

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