Former director general of CRPF V G Vaidya who along with other senior retired police officers have made the recommendations, reiterated that whipping, which was in force until 1940, should be revived as a form of punishment. He argued that if sentences of life imprisonments were not considered to be a violation of human rights just because they were delivered by the court, whipping for certain offences should also not be considered as violation of human rights. Desai however opposed the whipping punishment calling it barbaric. She said: ``Ours was a welfare state and not a police state to enforce such types of punishments''.

2 killed
Two persons were killed in two road accidents on the Mumbai-Pune Highway Saturday evening. Ramakant Devendra Digikar (25) of Shivajinagar in Chinchwad was killed on the spot when his scooter dashed against a road divider at Kasarwadi. A 70-year-old pedestrian was killed when a scooter hit him at Mahaveer Chowk in Chinchwad. His identity could not be ascertained.