Regarding: Insufficient jail term
Sanjeev Goyal
PMOPG/E/2026/0000741
Concerned Department: Law
Organized terrorist activities have shown a worrying increase in India in recent years. Several investigations have revealed that such crimes are often carefully planned, well-funded, and executed by educated individuals using sophisticated networks. These developments raise serious concerns about national security and prompt an important question: are existing legal punishments adequate to deter organized and ideologically motivated crimes? The recently cracked Al Falah university operative where highly educated so called network of brain-washed muslim doctors were found, is in fact a crime against humanity.
Terrorist acts and organized crimes directed against the security and integrity of the State are qualitatively distinct from ordinary criminal offenses. Such acts are not merely violations of penal law but constitute direct assaults on public order, national security and constitutional governance. Accordingly, a conventional jail sentence alone may not be sufficient to deter radicalized Muslims involved in highly organized and premeditated acts of terrorism. When punishment fails to create a meaningful deterrent, it risks emboldening future offenders, and this is what we can now feel clearly.
Has anybody heard of Gazva-E-USA, Gazva-E-China or Gazva-E-Rusia – why there is only Gazva-E-Hind? Only because of our slow & ineffective judicial management of such criminals. The existing system appears to have NO impact on hardened extremists, indicating the need for stronger deterrence mechanisms. While imprisonment may be adequate for ordinary crimes, terrorism and organized violence require a more robust, carefully regulated penal response that aims to protect national security.
Accordingly, the government must re-examine the effectiveness of current imprisonment policies for those convicted of heinous, planned crimes against society. These could be
(1) revive the concept of solitary confinement in cellular jail in one of the islands,
(2) Introduce flogging during jail term,
(3) Confiscation of all moveable properties belonging to self & spouse,
(4) Demolition of all immoveable belonging to self & spouse,
(4) Snatching all citizen rights of family members staying with terrorist
(5) Moving a proposal in UN and build international consensus to deprive these terrorists from the shield of human rights.
