- ISC Kumarappa-Reckless Award, at the ‘40th All India Criminology Conference’ held at GNLU, Gujarat, 19 January, 2018. This is the highest honour and award given by ISC, for excellence in the field of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
- ‘Prof. K. Chockalingam Award’, at the ‘Fourth International and Eight Biennial Conference of the Indian Society of Victimology’, 9 October, 2014.
- ‘Dr. B. S. Haikerwal and Prof. Sushil Chandra Award’, for being the Sr. Social Scientist for the year 2012. This award was by ‘Indian Society of Criminology, Chennai’.
- ‘Prof. S. S. Srivastava Award’ of ‘The Indian Society of Criminology’, for excellence in teaching and research in Criminology, 2004.
- ‘2001 Human Rights Promotion Award’, by ‘Indian Institute of Human Rights’, New Delhi.
- Title, ‘Fellow of the Indian Society of Criminology’ (FISC), 2001.
- ‘Human Rights Millennium Award’, 2000.
- ‘Distinguished Services Award’ by the Govt. of Punjab. This was for outstanding contribution in ‘Criminological Training for Police’ in Punjab, 1998.
- ‘G. B. Pant National Award’ by Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi. This was for writing a book on ‘Police and Human Rights’, 1997.