On Wednesday, the Delhi High Court rejected a petition by the murder case convict Vikas Yadav who had been petitioning to spend three weeks on furlough to sustain social contact with his newly-married wife. The court affirmed the ruling of jail officials to refuse to grant him temporary release by not seeing arbitrariness or law-breaking in their order.
A bench of Justice Ravinder Dudeja noted that the denial of Yadav plea did not lack any illegality or violation of constitutional rights. Considering this, this court does not perceive the order dated October 29 or the corrigendum dated December 1, 2025 as arbitrary, illegal or infringing upon constitutional rights. The court hence dismissed the petition. An elaborate copy of the judgment is awaited.
Yadav had appealed the decision of the prison officials of October 29, 2025, which refused his furlough request. The authorities did not want him released due to the nature of the crime committed, his life sentence, and also because the family of the victim was worried that he would run away, disrupt the peace of society and also create harm to society in case of release.
As his lawyer, Vikas Pahwa argued that Yadav has had his plea denied in a mechanical manner even after he had served well in jail. The case petition pointed out that he had previously been given four months of interim bail by the Supreme Court of India on medical grounds of his mother which was later renewed to allow him to get married. It has also stated that he has served 23 years in custody without furlough and asserts to be eligible under the Delhi Prison Rules, 2018.
Delhi Police and counsel representing Neelam Katara, however, insisted that furlough is never an absolute right and that there were enough reasons why they could have refused to give him the furlough.
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