Rajasthan HC grants 15 days parole to convict so that he can father child
India Today
Rajasthan High Court granted 15 days parole to a convict serving life imprisonment so that he can father a child.
Holding that a wife’s sexual and emotional needs associated with marital life should be protected, the Rajasthan High Court has granted 15 days parole to her husband serving life imprisonment so that he can father a child.
A division bench of justices Farzand Ali and Sandeep Mehta granted this permission to Nand Lal, while quoting various religious texts and socio-humanitarian aspects as well as fundamental rights of a couple of having a progeny.
The court observed that there was no express provision in the Rajasthan Prisoners Release On Parole Rules, 2021 for releasing the prisoner on parole on his wife’s plea to have a baby.
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It, however, granted the relief stating “considering that wife’s sexual and emotional needs associated with marital lives are affected and in order to protect the same, the prisoner ought to have been awarded a cohabitation period with his spouse”.
The interesting matter came up before the high court in a petition by convict Lal, serving the life imprisonment at Ajmer Central Jail, through his wife after the District Parole Committee of Ajmer kept his parole plea undecided.
Her ground for seeking parole as stated in the application was “she has not begotten any issue from their wedlock and thus, for want of progeny, she craves for 15 days emergent parole (sic)”.
