Random Reflections

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Description
The criminal justice system has moved away from its harsher T Draconian days to the reformatory humanitarian present. The parole process has been conceived of as a progressive device to humanism prisoners and reward them for good institutional conduct by a conditional release subject to procedural safeguards and obligation to return to prison. Phonological confusion used to prevail that parole was like suspension of sentence. But this is a Fallacy as the Supreme Court of India has explained in Dadu (2000) 8 SCC 437. The court categorically states:The criminal justice system has moved away from its harsher T Draconian days to the reformatory humanitarian present. The parole process has been conceived of as a progressive device to humanise prisoners and reward them for good institutional conduct by a conditional release subject to procedural safeguards and obligation to return to prison. Penological confusion used to prevail that parole was like suspension of sentence. But this is a Fallacy as the Supreme Court of India has explained in Dadu (2000) 8 SCC 437. The court categorically states:
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Contents
•    A Special Note on Parole Jurisprudence and Narcotic Convicts
•    Inhumanity on Adivasi and their Rehabilitative Strategy - A Kerala Fiasco
•    Christian Personal Laws in Chaos
•    College Campus Politics - Nocent or Innocent?
•    Constitution of India - The Nation's Safety Valve
•    Constitutional Amendments in India
•    Indian Casualties as Substitutes for American Cadavers in Occupied Iraq? No
•    Indian Policing - Some Social Dimensions
•    Information Explosion - A Vision Statement
•    Marad Massacre - A National Alarum
•    Transnational Corporations and Piracy of Ayurvedic Heritage
•    People's Commission on Perversion of our Patent Laws
•    Some New Light on Constitutional Law - A Review
•    The Marad Impasse - Omnious Portent
•    Blanket Ban on Strikes by Labour - A Judicial Excess?
•    Gujarat and Marad - Is Indian Secularism A Charade or A Soul under Siege
•    Mata Amritanandamayi - A Votarist Salutation
•    Two Constrasting Visionaries
•    Random Reflections on our Ancient Cultural Treasury
•    A Democratic Defeat without Personal Disappointment
•    A National Judicial Commission - A Command for Reforms
•    A Vibrant Vision and Militant Mission
•    Numerological Nostrum for Pathological Procrastination of the Judicature
•    Parliamentary Privileges, People's Freedoms and Judicial Invigilation
•    The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Camaraderie among the Great Institutions
•    A Case for National Prison Policy
•    Animal Citizen
•    Humanitarian Law- A Halting History of Global Evolution
•    Humanitarian Jurisprudence within the Parameters of a Global Democratic Order
•    Wounded Nature Vs. Human Future
•    Plachimada Patriotism - Toxicola Terrorism
•    Rabindranatha Tagore - The Assessment of a Visionary
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Author Details
Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer born on 15th November, 1915, in northern Kerala and educated in Annamalai and Madras Universities, practiced law and defended peasants and workers against the exploitation of the feudal lords who had full support of the colonial regime.
In 1956 Mr. lyer was elected initially to Madras Legislative Assembly and later, after reorganization of States, to the Kerala Assembly, where he was chosen as Minister in-charge of important portfolios like Home, Law, Social Welfare and Irrigation.
He was appointed judge of the Kerala High Court in July 1968 and became the Member of Indian Law Commission two years later. In 1973, the Supreme Court of India beckoned him where he played an important role in an era of judicial activism, public interest litigation, affirmative action through Courts and a wide ranging exercise of judicial review for which the Indian Judiciary is being hailed throughout the world today. Though his tenure in the Apex Court was relatively short, he managed to make a lasting impression on public mind. He is the author of numerous books and has penned innumerable articles and is a leading member of several social organizations and professional bodies. Mr. Justice lyer is an Honorary Visiting Professor of the National Law School and a promoter of its Community Law Reform Programme. He has been honoured with several coveted awards and distinctions from various organizations around the world.
He is the only Indian Judge on whom three doctoral thesis have been written by the scholars in three different Universities.
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