Supreme Court of India

Shri Rama Murthy v. State of Karnataka

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Bench Kuldip Singh, B.L. Hansaria and S.B. Majmudar JJ.
Decided 23 December 1996

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JUDGMENT: J U M N T HANSARIA J. This writ petition has its origin in a letter dated 12.4.1984 by a prisoner of Central Jail, Bangalore (one Rama Murthy) to the Hon’ble Chief Justice of this Court making grievance about some jail matters. The letter was ordered to be treated as a writ petition and court proceedings followed which are being wound up by delivering this judgment. 2. The epistolatory power had been invoked earlier also in a similar matter when Sunil Batra had written a letter to a Hon’ble Judge of this Court from Tihar Jail, Delhi.

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