Discuss (c) Community service

Punishment = the state's deliberate infliction of pain, deprivation or censure on a person convicted of an offence, through a legal process, as the crime's institutional answer. Its defining features (the analytical four): an offence behind it, an intended suffering within it, an authorised agent inflicting it, and a justification claimed for it — the last being the whole of punishment theory. Punishment's scale of severity in modern law runs from censure and fine through community service and imprisonment to life imprisonment (capital punishment now beyond Nepal's constitutional pale). Nepal's frame: the Criminal Code 2074's penalty catalogue and the Criminal Offences (Sentencing and Execution) Act 2074's execution machinery; the Constitution's floor — Art 16's life with dignity (and its clause (2): no law shall provide for capital punishment) and Art 22's torture bar (no inhuman treatment even as punishment's face).