@gullicricket
yes, i agree with you abt sumitra over-reacting. Locking up jagya in prison is the not the punishment that has to be given him. Thats being too strict with him. Actually it is shown in the serial too that the police had left those boys few times, but when they did not improve they locked them up.
Jagya has understood that he has done a big mistake and if he does it again he can be in a big trouble. He can be put in jail. He can be beaten up by the police. Even though he has done the mistake, he is still a kid. And he is completely terrified now. We had seen how he was shivering there. This time, he requires a assurence that his family is with him(but the family shld make clear that, they still believe that he has done a mistake). Jagya went out with sunder cos he felt his family is not with him. No one is his friend, he doesn't have anyone. At this time, if sumitra just leaves him there, that feeling is more imposed on him.
Moreover, the thought that only if he faces the legal punishment, he will understand his mistake is wrong. Sumitra cld have taken him to the house and punished him there. Atleast he is in his house. Now, more than jagya realising that he has done a mistake, he is going to think that though his family cld save him, they didn't. The guilt feeling of having done the mistake is going to take a back seat.
Parents can punish kids in the confinement of their house. however they shld not make a drama of it in front of the whole world. It can psychologically affect the kid a lot. Sumitra shld have taken jagya to the house and then punished him. However if he still doesn't learn, and this happens for the second time, she cld have made him stay in jail. I agree with gullicricket, that sumitra is just taking out her frustration that, anandi had to face the punishment for her mistake but her son is not having to, in a too strict manner and in this process forgetting what effect it wld have on her son.