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Bakshi Ram vs State Of H.P on 29 October, 2015 cites

Sunil Batra Etc vs Delhi Administration And Ors. Etc on 30 August, 1978

[15] The therapeutic approach aims at curing the criminal tendencies which were the product of a diseased psychology. There may be many factors, including the family problems. We are not concerned with those factors as therapeutic approach has since been treated as an effective method of punishment which not only satisfies the requirements of law 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 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 in jail, does not lose his fundamental rights or basic human rights and that he must be treated with compassion and sympathy (See : Sunil ::: Downloaded on - 15/04/2017 19:15:33 :::HCHP 12 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 .
Supreme Court of India Cites 55 - Cited by 442 - V R Iyer - Full Document

T.K. Gopal @ Gopi C vs State Of Karnataka on 5 May, 2000

Their Lordships of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in T.K. Gopal alias Gopi v. State of Karnataka reported in (2000) 6 SCC 168, have held that those who commit rape are psychologically sadistic persons exhibiting this tendency in the rape forcibly committed by them. In some States in U.S.A., therefore, emphasis was laid on psychotherapic treatment of the offender while he was under detention. In the matter of punishment for offence committed by a person, there are many approaches to the problem. On the commission of crime, three types of reactions may generate; the traditional reaction of universal nature which is termed as punitive approach. It regards the criminal as a notoriously dangerous person, who must be inflicted severe punishment to protect the society from his criminal assaults. The other approach is the therapeutic approach. It regards the criminal as a sick person requiring treatment, while the third is the preventive approach which seeks to ::: Downloaded on - 15/04/2017 19:15:33 :::HCHP 11 eliminate those conditions from the society which were responsible for crime causation. Their lordships have held as under:
Supreme Court of India Cites 15 - Cited by 67 - S S Ahmad - Full Document

Francis Coralie Mullin vs The Administrator, Union Territory Of ... on 13 January, 1981

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.).
Supreme Court of India Cites 13 - Cited by 341 - P N Bhagwati - Full Document
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