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NATIONAL JUDICIAL ACADEMY “SEMINAR ON SENTENCING IN CRIMINAL CASES FOR HIGH COURT JUSTICES HEADING CRIMINAL DIVISION” th th 4 March to 6 March 2016, P-976 VERBATIM REPORT Submitted by MILIND BHASKAR GAWAI Research Fellow NJA, Bhopal, M.P i ii Table of Contents SESSION 1 ................................................................................................................................................ 1 SUBJECT: SENTENCING PHILOSOPHIES ................................................................................................... 1 RESOURCE PERSONS: PROF. K. CHOCKALINGAM ................................................................................... 1 SESSION:2 .............................................................................................................................................. 21 SUBECT: TRADITIONAL AND EMERGINGAPPROACHES TO SENTENCING ............................................. 21 RESOURCE PERSON: DR. USHA RAMNATHAN ...................................................................................... 21 SESSION 3 .............................................................................................................................................. 38 SUBJECT: SENTENCING FOR CASTE BASED ATROCITIES ........................................................................ 38 RESOURCE PERSONS: MR. V. RAMESH NATHAN .................................................................................. 38 SESSION 4 .............................................................................................................................................. 54 SUBJECT: SENTENCING FOR GENDER RELATED ATROCITIES ................................................................ 54 RESOURCCE PERSON: JUSTICE GYAN SUDHA MISRA ............................................................................ 54 SESSION:5 SUBJECT: SENTENCING OBJECTIVELY .................................................................................. 67 CHAIR: JUSTICE GYAN SUDHA MISRA ................................................................................................... 67 RESOURCE PERSON: ADV. R BASANT .................................................................................................... 67 SESSION-6.............................................................................................................................................. 88 SUBJECT: SENTENCING FOR ECONOMIC CRIMES ................................................................................. 88 RESOURCE PERSONS: Adv. R. Basant, Adv. Sanjog Parab, Hon’ble Justice K. J. Sengupta ................... 88 SESSION:7 ............................................................................................................................................ 104 SUBJECT: SENTENCING FOR SEXUAL OFFENCES: ................................................................................ 104 RESOURCE PERSONS;PROF. MRINAL SATISH HON’BLE JUSTICE K. J. SENGUPTA ............................... 104 SESSION: 8 ........................................................................................................................................... 123 SUBJECT:SENTENCING LENIENTLY V/S SENTENCING HARSHLY .......................................................... 123 RESOURCE PERSONS:PROF. MRINAL SATISH ...................................................................................... 123 SESSION: 9 ........................................................................................................................................... 142 SUBJECT: SENTENCING FOR CYBER CRIMES ....................................................................................... 142 RESOURCE PERSONS: JUSTICE A. K. GOEL, JUSTICE GYAN SUDHA MISRA ......................................... 142 SESSION: 10 ......................................................................................................................................... 155 SUBJECT: SENTENCING PRACTICES FROM OTHER COUNTRIES .......................................................... 155 RESOURCE PERSON(S): 1. PROF. K. CHOKALINGAM AND 2. PROF. MRINAL SATISH .......................... 155 I II SESSION 1 SUBJECT: SENTENCING PHILOSOPHIES RESOURCE PERSONS: PROF. K. CHOCKALINGAM CHAIR: JUSTICE GYAN SUDHA MISRA Dr. Geeta Oberoi: Welcome back to National Judicial Academy. I know it’s very difficult to come back, to travel especially if you are not from Bombay, Delhi. Then it’s a long travel for some of you. So we have this three days program and I will just introduce something about today's programme. We have justice Gyan Sudha Misra she will be joining us, she will be chairing this three day programme all sessions. We have for 1st session Prof.K .Chokalingam of course I need not introduce about Justice Gyan Sudha Misra you know all of her all of you as a former judge of Supreme Court of India as for Pro. K. Chokalingam, he is a former Vice Chancellor of M.S university in Tamil Nadu. He will say more about himself. He was the first chair professor in criminal law in criminal law at National Law University, Delhi. He has worked in many countries. He will say more about himself. Then we have Mr V. Ramesh Nathan, and also Dr. Usha Ramanathan who is internationally recognised expert on law and poverty. She will be joining us. We have V. Ramesh Nathan who is actually activist and he has a CSO which works on rights of cast based atrocities basically he studies caste based atrocities and what kind of sentencing issues are there, so he will present that study and Justice Gyan Sudha Misra will of course take her session which is about gender related atrocities and of course we have judges who have undergone extensive courses on gender related training from university of Warwick and other places may be they will also share their experiences, by this all of you are welcome to share your experiences in this seminar. What we will have a you know strategy is that we will hear the speaker for 40-45 minutes and then we will have that last 15minutes for questions and answers. Then we also have Advocate. Sanjog Parab from Bombay. He will be doing tomorrow's session but he would like to hear the deliberations, so he is also be part of the conference now. As is the practise, before we start what we do we do round the table introduction because all of you are from different jurisdictions so we should know each other first so if you don't mind if we spend 5minutes in that. So, may be sir we can start from your side. Sorry this A/c is really noisy. Ladies first, okay. Justice Gyan Sudha Misra: Good morning everybody. 1 Dr.Geeta Oberoi: Ma’am I told them to introduce themselves. They said ladies first so let’s… Justice Gyan Sudha Misra: yes Participants : Pratibha Rani from Delhi High Court, Shalini , from Bombay High Court, U. Durga Prasad Rao from High Court of Hyderabad, Jaiswal from Hydrebad, Ramesh Sinha from High Court of Allahabad, Inder Singh Uboweja from Chattisgarh, Ghansyam Udwani form Gujarat, B.Sreenivase Gowda, from Karanataka High Court, Banglore, Babu. Mathew P. Joseph from Kerala, Siddhartha Chattopadhyay from Calcutta, Ranjit Kumar Bag from Calcutta, P.S. Rana from Himachal, P. Devadass, from Madras High Court. Justice Gyan Sudha Misra: Myself, I am Gyan sudha Misra, you can fill in the blanks if your G.K is good. Dr.Geeta Oberoi: Professor Chokalingam would you like to say something and start the session. Prof. K. Chockalingam: I am Professor Chokalingam. I was heading the department of university of Madras for about 23 years. Then I became the Vice Chancellor of the University in Thirunal Veli, the southern district southernmost district of Tamil Nadu Manomaniam Sundara University, there after my term of vice chancellor was over. I was invited by a Japanese University to work as a Professor in the field of victimology at the Tokio International Victimology Institute. I worked there for 6 long years and then returned then when I came to India the National Law University invited there to be their first K.L Arora chair professor in criminal law. So, I accepted the position for about two years and then after that I wanted to stay at home, stay at my home town as I missed many, many functions particularly our families were very displeased at… now I am settled at Kanyakumari district in our home town and now I am a freelancer, sharing and taking knowledge from distinguished people like you. Thank you very much. Justice Gyan Sudha Misra: Fortunately there’s no ceremonial function. I don’t need to introduce the subject as you all know it. So, let us get down to subject straight away. Prof. K. Chockalingam: Thankyou .. Professor Geeta Oberoi, our distinguished judge Hon’ble Justice Gyan Sudha Misra, distinguished judges of the various high courts, young friend Mr.Milind , Dr. Usha Ramanathan who I know for several decades. Friends, Geeta 2 Oberoi, the director of the institute said that you will have about 45 minutes talk by the visiting lecturer and about 15minutes question answers or discussions. Already the time is 10:10. I have these slide materials for more than 45 minutes but I would like to, you can read it later I would like to restrict it and as per her advice and suggestion and straightaway we will go to the topic. The topic today I am going to discuss with you is sentencing philosophies. What is sentencing? A sentence is a decree of punishment and it forms the final explicit act of a judgement process and also the symbolic principle act connected to his judicial function. Criminal penalties are

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