An activist has filed a petition in the Bombay High Court requesting its intervention in furlough and parole availed by financially sound prisoners while serving their sentence.

According to the petitioner, in ten years imprisonment the prisoners who are financially sound, serve only six and a half years in jail and for five years sentence, they spend three and a half years. The petitioner stated that poor prisoners cannot afford lawyers, due to which they are forced to serve the entire sentence, without furlough etc. The High Court on Tuesday directed the state government to file a reply in the petition.