In international cities like dubai,singapore etc they have heavy fines even for littering,leave alone big offences
for example in singapore,it's 1000$(36,000 indian rupees) for littering for the 1st time...if it's repeated the offender has to clean the city after being provided with cleaning material and a special uniform, so the public identifies him easily that is the punished one!
in other countries also fines are so heavy that the culprit becomes careful in future
the other day i read a news wherein ajay devgan was fined just Rs. 500 for smoking....
then a few months back i read in newspaper that a man who had captured someone's rightful property dragged the litigation unnecessarily for 20 yrs by taking advantage of loopholes in the law..the rightful owner must have spent so much money in these 20 yrs,besides wastage of his time and mental strain....and the court after noting the offender's misdeeds just fined him few thousand even though he wasted the court's time for 20 yrs.
similarly for many other offences in india the fines are so light that people dont learn a lesson even after this so called "punishment" and take it lightly
Can anyone explain why the fines in our country so light?
