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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Rigorous imprisonment
A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court had held Rathore guilty in December last year for molesting 15-year-old Ruchika in Panchkula town in August 1990. She committed suicide three years later.
He was sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs.1,000 in the 19-year-old molestation case. Rathore was granted bail immediately after his conviction.
A three-day continuous hearing of the case started in-camera at the district and sessions court in Sector 17 here following Rathore's appeal against his conviction.
Could you please explain to me what "rigorous" means here?
From a dictionary, it means "severe" but here I wonder if it really means that or not because he was released on bail immediately after his conviction. Then how come it's severe imprisonment.
Source : http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20100208/812/tnl-rathore-stabbed-in-face-outside-chan.html
He was sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs.1,000 in the 19-year-old molestation case. Rathore was granted bail immediately after his conviction.
A three-day continuous hearing of the case started in-camera at the district and sessions court in Sector 17 here following Rathore's appeal against his conviction.
Could you please explain to me what "rigorous" means here?
From a dictionary, it means "severe" but here I wonder if it really means that or not because he was released on bail immediately after his conviction. Then how come it's severe imprisonment.
Source : http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20100208/812/tnl-rathore-stabbed-in-face-outside-chan.html
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The word seems odd to me in this situation. I would expect something the likes of "twenty years at hard labor".
- The word seems odd to me in this situation.
- I would expect something the likes of "twenty years at hard labor".
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The word seems odd to me in this situation.
I would expect something the likes of "twenty years at hard labor".
I would expect something the likes of "twenty years at hard labor".
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My guess would be that it is a term of art used in the Indian legal system. It probably has a well understood meaning to those who work in and around the system (lawyers, judges, reporters).
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According to the report at http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSDEL156253 , "Rigorous imprisonment means doing labour like cooking, carpentry, farming, working on handlooms, etcetera."
So, it doesn't exactly sound like what I would call "hard
So, it doesn't exactly sound like what I would call "hard
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Thank you friends.
Now I got the meaning of "rigorous" imprisonment which is a more of "hard labor" as you suggest, but I wonder why here the term is used when the person is let out in bail on the same day without any such punishment.
Now I got the meaning of "rigorous" imprisonment which is a more of "hard labor" as you suggest, but I wonder why here the term is used when the person is let out in bail on the same day without any such punishment.
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User_gary
Now I got the meaning of "rigorous" imprisonment which is a more of "hard labor" as you suggest,
If the description I quoted is accurate then, to me, it doesn't really sound much like "hard labour". "Hard labour" would mean breaking rocks, or going down the salt mines, or something like that.
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