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Punish

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

To impose a penalty upon to afflict with pain loss or suffering for a crime or fault either with or without a view to the offenders amendment to cause to suffer in retribution to chasten as to punish traitors with death a father punishes his child for willful disobedience

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