‘Consideration of PO Act is right of accused and duty of Courts’; Gauhati HC grants benefit under PO Act to Headmaster & his son convicted of assaulting student’s mother
“The Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 was a milestone in the progress of the modern liberal trend of reform in the field of Penology. It was the result of recognition of the doctrine that the object of criminal law was more about the reformation of the offender than punishing him.”