State By J.J.Nagar Police vs Akhil @ Akhil Shariff on 14 January, 2019
In support of his arguments the learned counsel for the accused
has relied upon a decision reported in 1992 SCC Online KAR 38
held between State of Karnataka Vs. Harijan Dharma and
another thereby submitted that, the object of Probation of
Offenders Act, 1958, is a reformative measure and its object is
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to re-claim amateur offenders who can be usefully rehabilitated
in the society its object is to prevent conversion of youthful
offenders into obdurate criminals as a result of their
association with hardened criminals of mature age in case the
youthful offenders are sentenced to undergo imprisonment in
jail. Further he submitted basing on these submissions, made
by him he prayed to impose sentence on the accused keeping in
mind the future of the accused, as well as in the interest of
Natural Justice.