RAJIA Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) "A society that believes in the worth of individual beings can have the quality of its belief judged, at least in part, by the quality of its prison and probation services and of the resources made available to them". This passage has been extracted from a White Paper entitled "People in Prison" published by the British Government in November, 1969.

(2.) Many years earlier, precisely on 25/7/1910, Sir Winston Churchill speaking as Home Secretary, said in the House of Commons:

(3.) The same sentiment was echoed by Krishna Iyer, J. in Sunil Batra (II) vs. Delhi Administration, 1980 (3) SCC 488 (hereinafter referred to as Sunil Batra (II)). After extracting the above passage from the speech of Sir Winston Churchill, it was remarked;