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All the social objectives of the reformation and rehabilitation shall be washed away or surely diluted, if the parole is stigmatized with impunity by frequent breaches without repercussion.

The incentive of freedom has to be weighed against disincentive of breach, while keeping the good behaviour as an effective criteria to measure both.

Thus, it is clear that while weighing the incentive against disincentive, the disciplinary issue has to be of stellar standard, so as to ensure that the parole, which is undoubtedly a part of the custody period, has the same sanctity, as is given to the custody, and any violation of the parole conditions has to be viewed seriously so as to enable the system to grant more and more paroles to the inmates, while strengthening the system of rehabilitation and reformation. The legal position has to give an (14 of 15) [CRLRF-1/2021] unequivocal mandate that any violation of parole tenure has to be viewed on the same pedestal as breaching of custody.