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1 - 10 of 16 (0.24 seconds)Section 376 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
Section 6 in The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 [Entire Act]
Section 5 in The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 [Entire Act]
The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012
Sunil Batra Etc vs Delhi Administration And Ors. Etc on 30 August, 1978
that a criminal should be punished and the punishment
prescribed must be meted out to him, but also reforms the
criminal through various processes, the most fundamental of
which is that in spite of having committed a crime, may be a
heinous crime, he should be treated as a human being entitled
to all the basic human rights, human dignity and human
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sympathy. It was under this theory that this Court in a stream
of decisions, projected the need for prison reforms, the need to
acknowledge the vital fact that the prisoner, after being lodged
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in jail, does not lose his fundamental rights or basic human
rights and that he must be treated with compassion and
sympathy (See : Sunil Batra (I) v. Delhi Administration, AIR
1978 SC 1675 : (1978) 4 SCC 494 : 1979 (1) SCR 392 : (1978
Cri LJ 1741); Sunil Batra (II) v. Delhi Administration, AIR
1980 SC 1579 : (1980) 3 SCC 488 : 1980 (2) SCR 557 : (1980
Cri LJ 1099); Charles Sobraj v. Superintendent, Central Jail,
Tihar, AIR 1978 SC 1514 : (1978 Cri LJ 1534) and Francis
Coralie Mullin v. The Administrator, Union Territory of
Delhi, (1981) 1 SCC 608 : AIR 1981 SC 746 : 1981 (2) SCR 516
: (1981 Cri LJ 306) etc.).
Section 363 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
Section 366A in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
Section 313 in The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 [Entire Act]
Karamjit Singh vs State (Delhi Admn.) on 24 April, 2000
14. Their Lordships of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in
Karamjit Singh v. State (Delhi Admn.) reported in AIR 2000 SC
3467, have held that punishment in criminal cases is both,
punitive and reformative. The purpose is that the person found
guilty of committing the offence is made to realise his fault and is
deterred from repeating such acts in future. The reformative
aspect is meant to enable the person concerned to relent and
repent for his action and make himself acceptable to the society as
a useful social being. Within the parameters of law, an attempt
has to be made to afford an opportunity to the individual to reform
himself and lead life of a normal, useful member of society and
make his contribution to in that regard . denying such opportunity
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to a person who has been found to have committed offence in the
facts and circumstances placed on record would only have a
hardening attitude towards his fellow beings and towards society
.