LUCKNOW, March 29 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has clarified that a convicted prisoner cannot be granted parole merely to fix or arrange their children's marriage. The court also said that prisoners against whom other criminal cases are pending are not legally entitled to parole. With this observation, the court rejected the petition filed by former MLA Angad Yadav who sought parole. The judgment was passed by the division bench of Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan and Justice Rajeev Bharti recently on the petition of the former MLA who is serving a life sentence in a 1995 murder case. The court observed that under Rule 1(4)(c), parole cannot be granted to prisoners against whom other cases are pending. The petitioner faces several serious cases, including murder. Earlier, the petitioner had twice applied for parole before the state government. The first time, he sought release on health and humanitarian grounds, which was rejected, citing that the rules did not provide for parole for a prisoner's personal medical treatment. The second time, he requested 60 days of parole to arrange his son and daughter's marriages and attend to his farm work. The UP government rejected this request, stating that no wedding date had been set and that parole could not be granted solely to find a match. The petitioner has challenged these orders refusing him parole. During the hearing of the case, the court also justified the state government's decision. The court said there is no clear provision in the rules that allows parole to be granted for arranging children's marriages. Regarding farming, the court stated that parole could only be granted if there were no other alternatives. However, the petitioner has three adult sons. Therefore, it held that adequate alternative arrangements existed for farming. HTC...