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Understanding Open Prisons in India The reformative theory of justice postulates removing the dangerous degeneracy in a criminal and afford them a chance to make a fresh start and lead an honest life. This ensures fundamental human dignity, a most essential constitutional and human right. The current penitentiary structure’s primary focus on punitive and retributive forms of punishment is ill-suited in safeguarding human dignity. The present jail administration in India is archaic, opaque and rife with abuses at systemic level. There is an urgent imperative for various prison reforms. An understanding is sought to be developed of the open prisons as a peno-correctional institution and their superiority over the more conventional forms of incarceration in ensuring both, the societal objective of penal sentencing and the human rights objective of successful reintegration of the prisoners upon their release. ....
Contempt of Court: Does Criticism Lower the Authority of the Judiciary? The law punishing contempt of court leaves ample room for interpretation at the discretion of judges. Such discretion has the potential to be used to curb criticism of the judiciary. On 18 December 2020, the Supreme Court decided to proceed with the criminal contempt of court cases against stand-up comedian Kumal Kamra and cartoonist Rachita Taneja, and issued notices to both. The contempt proceedings against Kamra and Taneja are based on their tweets about the apex court and its judges, including after the Supreme Court granted interim bail to journalist Arnab Goswami. The Supreme Court’s notices come after consent by Attorney General K K Venugopal to initiate contempt action. ....