Report No. 156

Clause 18

12.13. Under this clause, the existing section 53 is sought to be substituted. The proposed section 53 enumerates various kinds of punishments. Under this proposed new section 4, new forms of punishments such as Community service, Disqualification from holding office, Order for payment of compensation and Public censure have been added. The sentencing policy and the proposed changes have already been discussed in detail in Chapter II. For the reasons stated in that Chapter, we do not endorse the addition of those new forms of punishments except public censure.