Category: Criminal Law

[Titled Forfeiture of property in respect of offenders punishable with death, transportation or imprisonment repealed by the Indian Penal Code (Amendment) Act, 1921]

[Titled Sentence of forfeiture of property repealed by the Indian Penal Code (Amendment) Act, 1921]

  60. Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple In every case in which an offender is punishable with imprisonment which may be of either description, it shall be competent to the court which sentences such offender to direct in the sentence that such imprisonment shall be wholly … Continue reading “60. Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple – Indian Penal Code, 1860”

REPEALED [Titled Transportation instead of imprisonment repealed by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 1955, w.e.f. 1st. January, 1956]

[Titled Offenders sentenced to transportation how dealt with until transported repealed by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 1955, w.e.f. 1st. January, 1956]

57. Fractions of terms of punishment In calculating fractions of terms of punishment, 44[imprisonment] for life shall be reckoned as equivalent to 44[imprisonment] for twenty years.

REPEALED [Titled Sentence of Europeans and Americans to penal servitude, proviso as to sentence for term exceeding ten years but not for life repealed by the Criminal Law (Removal of Racial Discriminations) Act, 1949, w.e.f. 6th. April, 1949]

[55A. Definition of “appropriate Government” In sections 54 and 55 the expression “appropriate Government” means,- (a) in cases where the sentence is a sentence of death or is for an offence against any law relating to a matter to which the executive power of the Union extends, the Central Government; and (b) in cases where … Continue reading “55A. Definition of “appropriate Government” – Indian Penal Code, 1860″

55. Commutation of sentence of imprisonment for life In every case in which sentence of 44[imprisonment] for life shall have been passed, 45[the appropriate Government] may, without the consent of the offender, commute the punishment for imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding fourteen years.  

54. Commutation of sentence of death In every case in which sentence of death shall have been passed, 43[the appropriate Government] may, without the consent of the offender, commute the punishment for any other punishment provided by this Code.