MOTI @ MOHIT vs STATE, NCT OF DELHI

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 15.07.2025 + W.P.(CRL) 937/2025 MOTI @ MOHIT .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Hemendra Jailiya, Advocate versus STATE, NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Sanjeev Bhandari, ASC for the State CORAM: HON’BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J CRL.M.A. 19564/2025 (grant of extension of furlough) 1. By way of the present application, the applicant is seeking extension of furlough – which was granted to the petitioner vide order dated 24.06.2025 passed by the Director General (Prisons), Tihar Jail, New Delhi and is to expire on 12.07.2025 – till the next date of hearing in the main petition. 2. The facts, as apparent from the records, are that the applicant herein is presently confined in Central Jail No. 2, Tihar, New Delhi, in relation to case arising out of FIR No. 428/2004, registered at Police Station Defence Colony for offence punishable under Sections W.P.(CRL) 937/2025 Page 1 of 5 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:15.07.2025 20:22:42 302/380/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 [hereafter ‘IPC’], wherein he was convicted and sentenced by the learned Trial Court to undergo a sentence of rigorous imprisonment for life. The conviction of the petitioner was also upheld by this Court as well as the Hon’ble Supreme Court. 3. As on date, the petitioner has undergone an actual sentence of about 19 years and 07 months, excluding the remission of about 3 years and 10 months. 4. The above-captioned writ petition was preferred by the petitioner inter alia challenging the rejection order dated 13.02.2025 passed by the Sentence Review Board (SRB) whereby the premature release of the petitioner has been denied. 5. The learned counsel appearing