JUDGMENT (Prayer: Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for a Writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to take necessary steps to make utilize the services of the convicted eligible prisoners confined in Central Prisons/District Jails across the State of Tamilnadu by employing them under Section 35 and 36 of the Prisons Act, 1894 during this COVID-19 Pandemic as a part of rehabilitation measure by bringing social responsibility to the prisoners. Dr. Vineet Kothari, J. The Court was held by Video Conference, in terms of the Resolution of the Full Court dated 30th April 2020, by Judges from their respective residence offices, where minimum staff made available and the counsel, staff of the Court appearing from their respective residences. 2. Heard the petitioner-in-person, who is a practicing Advocate. 3. The prayer made in the writ petition is to direct the respondents/State Government to employ the services of the convicted jail inmates for providing security and other services relating to control of COVID 19 Pandemic outside the jails also so that they can undertake social work and it will be a step towards the reform of the jail inmates, which is the intention of the relevant rules and the Prisons Act, 1894. 4. The learned Government Pleader, however, expressed his doubt that the bringing out the jail inmates out of the jail premises to serve various causes of the State Government is fraught with risk of elopement, etc. and he submitted that sufficient number of volunteers are already available, to say, around 40,000 and odd, to assist the police personnel in the security and other works for maintaining law and order in the COVID-19 situation for the present. Therefore, he submitted that there is no justification for issuing any such direction by this Court to employ the services of the jail inmates in this regard. 5. Having heard the learned counsels, we are of the opinion that no such Mandamus can be issued to the State. We agree with the submission made by the learned Government Pleader that taking the services of the convicted people, who are presently in the jails, outside the jail premises may not only be fraught with risk, but there is no such requirement as such made out either by the petitioner-in-person or by the State as of now. We agree with the submission made by the learned Government Pleader that taking the services of the convicted people, who are presently in the jails, outside the jail premises may not only be fraught with risk, but there is no such requirement as such made out either by the petitioner-in-person or by the State as of now. The employment of the jail inmates within the jail premises in different spheres for their reform has already been taking place in terms of the Prisons Act and the rules made there under. Therefore, bringing them outside the jails to assist the police personnel and other volunteers for security and other related purposes in COVID-19 situation is not considered very necessary at this stage. Therefore, we are not inclined to entertain this Public Interest Litigation filed by the Petitioner, a Practicing Advocate, as Party-in-Person and accordingly, this writ petition is liable to be dismissed. 6. In the result, this writ petition is dismissed.