#funeral rites

Karnataka High Court grants 15-day emergency parole to a convict to perform his mother’s last rites, holding that incarceration does not extinguish fundamental familial obligations. The ruling reinforces that humanitarian grounds, subject to strict police supervision, must be balanced with prisoner rights under Article 21 of the Constitution.

The Kerala High Court permitted a convict under the POCSO Act to attend his paternal aunt’s funeral rites on emergency parole, conditioning release on police escort and timely return. This ruling affirms that proximate kinship and cultural obligations can override the gravity of the offence under exceptional humanitarian circumstances, setting a precedent for compassionate parole in sexual offence cases.