VIKRAM YADAV vs STATE GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 17.05.2025 Judgment pronounced on: 11.06.2025 W.P.(CRL) 3429/2024 & CRL.M.A. 1394/2025 VIKRAM YADAV .....Petitioner Through: Ms. Arundhati Katju, Sr. Advocate with Mr. Ali Chaudhary, Ms. Shristi Borthakur and Mr. Abuzar Ali, Advocates versus STATE GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Sanjeev Bhandari, ASC for State with Mr. Sushant Bali, Ms. Avita Bhandari, Mr. Arjit Sharma and Mr. Nikunj Bindal, Advocates with Inspector Shrichand and SI Anil, PS Seemapuri CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE GIRISH KATHPALIA JUDGMENT GIRISH KATHPALIA, J.: Kautilya’s Arthshastra makes references to the element of reformatory policy of sentencing that later came to be known as “remission”. Release of convicted prisoners on sympathetic grounds before completion of the term of imprisonment imposed on them was significant part of the ancient Hindu jurisprudence. Kautilya advocated for periodic exercise of premature W.P.(CRL) 3429/2024 pages GIRISH 1. The petitioner, having suffered incarceration for more than 18 years without remission and more than 21 years with remission, consequent upon his conviction in cases FIR No.611/2001 a