The High Court has ordered the premature release of three out of the four convicts—Rohan Dhungat, Ryan Pinto, and Shankar Tiwari—in the high-profile 2006 kidnapping and murder of law student Mandar Surlakar. The Court also set aside the Goa government's repeated rejection of the State Sentence Review Board's recommendations, emphasizing that, under constitutional principles of criminal justice, the focus must be on reformation rather than endless retributive punishment.