Ms. Inayatullah said the government was considering setting up a summary court to deliver quick punishment to those responsible for the rape.
The theory is that quicker punishment for those who break the rules of their release will cut down on the chances of more serious crimes that lead back to prison.
He is quick to condemn punishment-based policies that further isolate authoritarian regimes, especially economic sanctions, and Iraq-style enforced regime changes.
(Never mind how I know!) So maybe the attraction involves instant penance: for the sin of vanity, a quick zap of punishment.
"The courts use pretrial detention as a quick means of punishment, guilty or not, and it alienates them, makes hardened criminals out of 15-year-olds," said Jaap Doek, a juvenile court judge in the Netherlands and a member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.
The incident has led to outrage in India with some describing it as "inhuman and completely outrageous" and many calling for a quick trial and punishment for the rapists.
The measure, which the lower house passed last month, requires immigrants to provide fingerprints to obtain official documents, allows for quick expulsions and toughens punishment of immigrants who break the law.
After Berlusconi held meetings with Fedele Confalonieri, a senior manager at his media firm Mediaset, speculation was rife that Confalonieri had convinced him to give up his insistence on quick elections because of the punishment the prime minster's companies were taking on the stock exchange.
Fagel now proposed to treat the liberated provinces of Utrecht, Gelderland and Overijssel as conquered territory (Generality Lands), as punishment for their quick surrender to the enemy.
