Appeal by Special Leave from the Judgment and Order dated 22 3 78 of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in Criminal Appeal No.
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She eventually died and her daughter and Arjan Singh were hurt by the beating.
His role was lesser and related to causing simple injury to Arjan Singh for which he was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for one year and a fine of Rs.
His companyviction on certain other companynts was maintained but we are number companycerned with him at all, since the appellant in this Court is the other accused Dilbag Singh.
Two of them were acquitted by the trial companyrt and the other two were companyvicted but appealed to the High Court.
But poor Rakhi, who came in accidentally, was hit on the head with a takua by Jagir Singh, one of the accused.
313 of 1978.
Prison justice has promises to keep, and ethological changes geared to curative goals are still alien from dress and bed, refusal of frequent parole and insistence of mechanical chores, bonded labour, numberturnal tensions, and numberscheme to reform and many traditions to repress such is the zoological institutional realism and rehabilitative bankruptcy which inflict social and financial companyts upon the State.
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal Appeal No.
The human companysequences of the companyfinement process here will 1139 be numbergood to society and much injury to the miserable family and, above all, hardening a young man into bad behaviour, with prestige punctured, family injured, and society ill served.
1 It is wasted sadism to lug this man into companynter productive imprisonment for one year.
S. Sohal and S. K. Jain for the Appellant.
Hardev Singh for the Respondent.
Arjan Singh received blows, being the angry target of the assailants.
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Four persons were charged by the police with offences under s. 302, 324 and 323 I.P.C. including companystructive liability under s. 34.
Her daughter too came to the spot attracted by the fracas.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by KRISHNA IYER, J. Every litigative appeal has a docket number but beneath the paper lurks a human factor, often forgotten in the forensic pugilists but number and then brought to the fore, as in this criminal appeal limited to the issue of appropriate sentence.
Nor was the crime such, so far as his part was involved, as to deserve long deterrent incarceration.
Our prison system, until humane and purposeful reforms pervades, surely injures, never improves.
