{"id":691,"date":"2018-08-29T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T12:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=691"},"modified":"2018-08-29T12:34:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T12:34:09","slug":"55a-definition-of-appropriate-government-indian-penal-code-1860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/55a-definition-of-appropriate-government-indian-penal-code-1860\/","title":{"rendered":"55A. Definition of &#8220;appropriate Government&#8221; &#8211; Indian Penal Code, 1860"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><a name=\"_Toc496764891\"><\/a>[55A. Definition of &#8220;appropriate Government&#8221;<\/h5>\n<p>In sections 54 and 55 the expression &#8220;appropriate Government&#8221; means,-<\/p>\n<p>(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<\/p>\n<p>(b) in cases where the sentence (whether of death or not) is for an offence against any law relating to a matter to which the executive power of the State extends, the Government of the State within which the offender is sentenced.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[55A. Definition of &#8220;appropriate Government&#8221; In sections 54 and 55 the expression &#8220;appropriate Government&#8221; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/55a-definition-of-appropriate-government-indian-penal-code-1860\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;55A. Definition of &#8220;appropriate Government&#8221; &#8211; Indian Penal Code, 1860&#8243;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1585],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khannaandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}