Another 1993 bomb blast convict Mujeeb Parkar, who is serving five years imprisonment, has been granted parole by the authorities to attend to his ailing wife who has been detected with appendicitis and had been advised surgery, but cannot undergo it as there is no one to look after her minor children.

On Friday, the prison authorities informed that the divisional commissioner, Pune, has ordered the release of Parkar on parole for a month to attend to his wife. Parkar, lodged in Kolhapur prison, moved the court in December last year, seeking parole as the Pune divisional commissioner and later the under secretary of the Home Department had rejected his plea on the grounds that police had opposed his release.

However, the court asked the Divisional Commissioner of Pune to reconsider the decision on Parkar’s plea for parole. Advocate Farhana Shah, appearing for Parkar, had argued that “Parkar has been sentenced to five years in jail by the TADA court and he had already served about half of it. His wife was suffering from appendicitis and had been advised surgery.”

Accordingly the court disposed of the plea of Parkar saying it did not survive because parole had been granted to him by the authorities.

Zabunisa KaziZabunisa Kazi, who was also convicted along with Dutt and Parkar in the same case, has also filed a petition in the High Court seeking parole. Kazi, aged 70, is serving a five-year term in Yerwada Prison of Pune. She was denied parole in October 2013. Kazi then filed an appeal before the Home Ministry in November. As the appeal is still pending, she moved the High court seeking an early decision.