Shruti Kumari
Symbiosis Law School, Pune
Abstract
Punishment is at the very core of the criminal justice system and serves simultaneously retribution, deterrence, incapacitation, and reform. The power to commute, remit, or pardon a sentence, which rests in the executive under Articles 72 and 161 of the Constitution of India and Sections 432 to 435 of the Code of Criminal Procedure , […]