The Punjab Abolition of Whipping Act, 1957

The Punjab Abolition of Whipping Act, 1957

The Punjab Abolition of Whipping Act, 1957 formally outlawed corporal punishment by whipping across the state of Punjab for offences falling under state and concurrent legislative powers. The law ensured that courts could no longer order flogging or caning as a judicial sentence for any crime. For prisoners who had already been sentenced to whipping before the Act came into force but whose sentences had not yet been carried out, the Act required courts to substitute the whipping with alternative legal punishments like additional imprisonment or fines under criminal procedure rules. It protects human dignity and fundamental physical safety.

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