If reporting confession becomes Law , then confession of crime stops at 9am when the Law starts. Then priest and police are in the same boat .It stinks but some people need the escape device of confidential talk , at least their psychotic condition can be relaxed a bit which probably is for some one's good.

Yuyutsu
Is it really the case that Hindus feel it's wrong to jail a crim? Do judges also feel that way? Is that connected with the amount of political corruption in India?

Paul,

How would a priest know the identity of the penitent?

Any law that mandates reporting of legally punishable offences would require positive identification to be effective.

Or are we to start Soviet style denunciations without the proper rules of evidence; I could see this appealing to some of our politicians.

A bishop may have a rough idea of which priest is confessing his love for children.

Paul,

At least we know where the greens get their interest in children?

Dear Nick,

«Is it really the case that Hindus feel it's wrong to jail a crim?

Not necessarily wrong, but the consequences have to be borne nevertheless.
If you hurt another, then you will be hurt yourself in an equivalent manner, so if you imprison another then you will be imprisoned yourself or experience something equivalent of that magnitude.

Everyone ought to do their duty, but you ought to perform your own duty, rather than another's. In society there is the warrior (Kshatriya) class/caste and it is their duty to keep law and order, rule and administrate. By nature, a true Kshatriya would never mind being injured or going to prison himself/herself if that's what it takes to perform his/her duty to keep law and order. They consider it their honour to do so.

«Do judges also feel that way?»

A judge would naturally be a Kshatriya, so they won't feel that way.

Whereas a true priest would naturally be a Brahmin, not a Kshatriya, thus should not be required to perform the duties of a Kshatriya.

«Is that connected with the amount of political corruption in India?»

When judges and politicians are not Kshatriyas, especially when instead Vaishyas (the trade/merchant/craftsman class) are elected to those positions, corruption occurs.

Society works well when everyone performs their own duty.

The phenomena of caste is natural and is based on each person's own characteristics, skills, temperament and inclinations.

The Tragedy of India is that the caste system was wrongly understood to be rigidly hereditary, where a person was assumed to belong to a caste only because their parents were of that caste. While on the balance of probabilities, one would usually be of the same caste as their parents, this is often not the case - and over a number of generations this would be totally incorrect.

Mahatma Gandhi did his best to eradicate this unjust and rigid division into castes by birth, but healing takes time and the system could not have been completely fixed and balanced in one day.

" By nature, a true Kshatriya would never mind being injured or going to prison himself/herself if that's what it takes to perform his/her duty to keep law and order. They consider it their honour to do so.

«Do judges also feel that way?»

A judge would naturally be a Kshatriya, so they won't feel that way."
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Could you say that again? Mahabharata and Ramayana suggest a Kshatriya may occasionally stick a sword in to make a point .
Modi is Vasya or Sudra so he won't be doing jail time to help a crim ? Is it hard for police to get evidence from devout Saivites and Vaishnavas?