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This paper provides an overview about punishment as a drive towards justice in India. It compartmentalizes the chronological explanation of various theories of punishment with concrete examples. However, it highlights and expatiates the impacts of punishment on reducing the crime rate in India, the question of separating criminals from society, granting of parole, the effects of punishing offenders, along with attempting to resolve the arrival on the issue of giving alternatives to the criminal justice system. Moreso, the aspect of justice, evidence law, rarest or rare doctrine, collective conscience, factors influencing the commission of crime, and changing the narratives of sentencing, etc. have been dealt with concretely. Works of literature were drawn from both primary sources through observations of various court proceedings, activities of advocates, and visitation of some jails in India as well as secondary sources of data collection, such as Books, Journals, Case Laws, Reports, and other internet materials. To get a tentative outcome, the author has adopted a strategic research methodology; doctrinal, analytical as well as a comparative study. Except where due recognition of any author has been referenced, the credit and originality of the work lies with its maker. This paper, therefore, concludes that more concerted efforts should be geared towards the aspect of the criminal justice system, it provides some possible suggestions, and it also answers the question as to whether punishment should be reformed or maintained as a valid criterion for the effective administration of the criminal justice system in India.