MUMBAI: A group of prisoners on emergency Covid-19 parole has challenged the state's May 4 circular requiring all inmates who had been given temporary parole or bail to surrender within 15 days. It is scheduled to be heard by the HC vacation bench of Justices Nitin Sambre and A L Pansare on Tuesday.
The petition said the state has not considered the overcrowding of jails and ignored specific orders of the Supreme Court, which in July 2021 had directed that till further orders such convicts should not be asked to return to prisons.
