Arbitrary Denial of Emergency Leave to Convict to Attend Brother’s Son’s Marriage Violates Articles 14 and 15: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court has ruled that there cannot be any discrimination between the children of a brother and the children of a sister while granting emergency leave to a convict to attend their marriage. Dr. Justice Kauser Edappagath observed that applications seeking emergency leave to attend the marriage of a convict’s brother’s children were being routinely rejected across prisons in the State, which was found to be unconstitutional. Facts…