Object of parole is to rehabilitate the convicted prisoner

Application for temporary leave (parole) has to be decided by District Magistrate keeping in view that the object of parole is to rehabilitate the convicted prisoner. 1. The object of granting parole is to make necessary efforts to rehabilitate a convict prisoner in the main stream of society based on “Karuna” (compassion) as well as on human consideration. 2. His Lordship A.P. Sen, J, speaking for the Supreme Court, while highlighting the object of parole in the matter of Poonam Lata v M.L. Wadhawan and others, observed in no uncertain terms that “release on parole is a wing...