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From Legislation to implementation: a roadmap for India's probation system reform

Author(s) Ms. SEHANAZ T
Country India
Abstract The Probation of Offenders Act of 1958 created India’s probation system, which is paradoxically underutilized despite being conceptually progressive because of judicial conservatism, systemic inefficiencies, and inadequate infrastructure. Only 5–7% of eligible offenders currently benefit from probation, which has little potential to reduce overcrowding in prisons that are operating at 150–200% capacity and house 70% of undertrials. In order to make probation an efficient cornerstone of India’s criminal justice system, this paper presents a thorough reform agenda. The Supreme Court’s guidelines and specialized courts, technological integration with e-monitoring tools, and institutional reforms through a National Probation Mission and updated Model Rules are some of the main proposals. The framework places a strong emphasis on economic reintegration through employer incentives, required counselling through DMHP, and rehabilitation through skill development partnerships with NSDC. Transparency and public trust would be improved by complementary initiatives like standardized state performance audits and yearly Probation Awareness campaigns. The viability of tech-enabled supervision models would be demonstrated by pilot projects in a few Smart Probation Cities. These reforms, which can operationalize probation’s constitutional mandate of reformative justice while providing quantifiable benefits in decarcerating, recidivism reduction, and fiscal efficiency, can be funded with a small 0.1% reallocation of police/prison budgets. In the end, they will help close the gap between India’s progressive probation legislation and its insufficient implementation.
Keywords Probation reforms, judicial training, restorative justice, e-monitoring, demarcation.
Published In Volume 7, Issue 4, July-August 2025
Published On 2025-07-12
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i04.50751
Short DOI https://doi.org/g9s9pm
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