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Section 427: Sentence on offender already sentenced for another offence

(1) When a person already undergoing a sentence of imprisonment is sentenced on a subsequent conviction to imprisonment or imprisonment for life, such imprisonment...

Section 428: Period of detention undergone by the accused to be set off against the sentence of imprisonment

Where an accused person has, on conviction, been sentenced to imprisonment for a term, not being imprisonment in default of payment of fine, the period...

Section 429: Saving

(1) Nothing in section 426 or section 427 shall be held to excuse any person from any part of the punishment to which he...

Section 430: Return of warrant on execution of sentence

When a sentence has been fully executed, the officer executing it shall return the warrant to the Court from which it is issued, with...

Section 431: Money ordered to be paid recoverable as a fine

Any money (other than a fine) payable by virtue of any order made under this Code, and the method of recovery of which is...

Section 432: Power to suspend or remit sentences

(1) When any person has been sentenced to punishment for an offence, the appropriate Government may, at any time, without conditions or upon any...

Section 433: Power to commute sentence

The appropriate Government may, without the consent of the person sentenced, commute— (a) a sentence of death, for any other punishment provided by the Indian...

Section 433A: Restriction on powers of remission or commutation in certain cases

Notwithstanding anything contained in section 432, where a sentence of imprisonment for life is imposed on conviction of a person for an offence for...

Section 434: Concurrent power of Central Government in case of death sentences

The powers conferred by sections 432 and 433 upon the State Government may, in the case of sentences of death, also be exercised by...

Section 435: State Government to act after consultation with Central Government in certain cases

(1) The powers conferred by sections 432 and 433 upon the State Government to remit or commute a sentence, in any case where the...

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