- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2026:KHC:6183 WP No.37888/2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 3RD DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2026 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE B M SHYAM PRASAD WRIT PETITION NO. 37888/2025 (GM-POLICE) BETWEEN: PRASHANTH H H S/O HEMANTH G HOSURU AGED ABOUT 27 YEARS, SON OF CONVICT HEMANTH CTP 00922 CHANNARAYAPATTANA TALUK, KASABA HOBLI, GOWDAGERE, HASSAN-573116 …PETITIONER (BY SRI. SIRAJUDDIN AHMED., ADVOCATE) AND: 1. STATE OF KARNATAKA HOME DEPARTMENT, THROUGH PRINCIPAL SECRETARY VIDHANA SOUDHA, BENGALURU-560001. 2. CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT CENTRAL PRISON MYSORE-570007. Digitally signed by VANAMALA N Location: HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2026:KHC:6183 WP No.37888/2025 3. STATE BY CHANRAYPATNA TOWN P.S PIN-562135 JURISDICTIONAL POLICE STATION …RESPONDENTS (BY SRI.B.RAVINDRANATH, AGA) THIS W.P. IS FILED UNDER ARTICLES 226 AND 227 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA PRAYING TO DIRECT THE R2 TO RELEASE THE PETITIONERS FATHER HEMANTH CTP-0922 ON GENERAL PAROLE FOR A PERIOD OF 90 DAYS IN ORDER TO MEET THE MEDICAL EXPENSES OF THE PETITIONER. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR PRELIMINARY HEARING, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE B M SHYAM PRASAD - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2026:KHC:6183 WP No.37888/2025 ORAL ORDER The petitioner seeks parole for his father who is convicted for life in S.C. No.1 of 2021 on the file of the IV Additional District and Sessions Judge, Hassan sitting at Channarayapatna. The petitioner's father has been in prison for over 5 years and 5 months. Sri Sirajuddin Ahamed, the learned counsel for the petitioner, submits that this Court may consider admitting the petitioner's father to parole in view of the fact that his other son has met with an accident which required surgery for the injuries in the head. The learned counsel relies upon the photographs produced to show that the petitioner's brother is injured. The request for general parole is considered in the light of these circumstances and the indisputable fact that a surgery, as could be seen from the photographs produced, would require all the family members to come together to meet further medical - 4 - HC-KAR NC: 2026:KHC:6183 WP No.37888/2025 expenses but the petitioner's father must be put on terms to ensure that he does not commit any offence and returns back to the prison after completion of the general parole period. Hence the following ORDER [A] The petition is allowed directing the second respondent to admit the petitioner's father [Sri Hemanth G Hosuru, CTP 00922] to parole for a period of 90 days reserving liberty to the learned counsel for the petitioner to file a certified copy of this order with the second respondent through email [cpmys.prisons-kar@gov.in] addressed to the Chief Superintendent, Central Prison, Mysuru. [B] The second respondent shall admit the petitioner's father to general parole - 5 - HC-KAR NC: 2026:KHC:6183 WP No.37888/2025 subject to executing a bond as is required under the Karnataka Prisons and Correctional Services Manual 2021. [C] The second respondent is directed to insist on stringent conditions to ensure that the petitioner's father marks his attendance regularly with the jurisdictional Police and return to the prison. SD/- (B M SHYAM PRASAD) JUDGE NV List No.: 3 Sl No.: 54