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ORDER
1. This is an application filed by the petitioner, Smt. Attam Tulasi, represented by her
mother, Smt. Attam Komaramma. The petitioner has been arrested on 19-11-1987 and
lodged in Central Jail, Rajahmundry, she having been convicted for the offence of
murder committed by her at the age of 17 years 7 months.
2 . The petitioner prays for the issue of a writ of mandamus declaring her arrest as
illegal and unjust and the sentence of life imprisonment imposed on her as being
unsustainable and violative of Art. 21 of the Constitution with a further consequential
direction to release her forthwith from the Central Jail, Rajahmundry.
3 . The facts of the case are that the petitioner, Smt. Attam Tulasi, was working as a
Preliminary Training Nurse in K.G. Hospital, Visakhapatnam during 1965. While she was
working there, she was charged with the murder of a newly born baby to her on 17-9-
1965, punishable under S. 302 of the I.P.C. Along with the petitioner, another girl, by