BNS Section 266: Violation of the condition of remission of punishment
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter 14: Of False Evidence and Offences Against Public Justice
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266. Whoever, having accepted any conditional remission of punishment, knowingly violates any condition on which such remission was granted, shall be punished with the punishment to which he was originally sentenced, if he has already suffered no part of that punishment, and if he has suffered any part of that punishment, then with so much of that punishment as he has not already suffered.
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Other sections in this chapter
- 227. Giving false evidence
- 228. Fabricating false evidence
- 229. Punishment for false evidence
- 230. Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of capital offence
- 231. Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of offence punishable with imprisonment for life or imprisonment
- 232. Threatening any person to give false evidence
- 233. Using evidence known to be false
- 234. Issuing or signing a false certificate
- 235. Using as true a certificate known to be false
- 236. False statement made in a declaration which is by law receivable as evidence
- 237. Using as true such a declaration knowing it to be false
- 238. Causing disappearance of evidence of an offence, or giving false information to screen an offender
- 239. Intentional omission to give information of an offence by a person bound to inform
- 240. Giving false information respecting an offence committed
- 241. Destruction of a document or electronic record to prevent its production as evidence
- 242. False personation for the purpose of an act or proceeding in a suit or prosecution
- 243. Fraudulent removal or concealment of property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution
- 244. Fraudulent claim to property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution
- 245. Fraudulently suffering a decree for a sum not due
- 246. Dishonestly making a false claim in Court
- 247. Fraudulently obtaining a decree for a sum not due
- 248. False charge of an offence made with intent to injure
- 249. Harbouring an offender
- 250. Taking a gift, etc., to screen an offender from punishment
- 251. Offering a gift or restoration of property in consideration of screening an offender
- 252. Taking a gift to help to recover stolen property, etc
- 253. Harbouring an offender who has escaped from custody or whose apprehension has been ordered
- 254. Penalty for harbouring robbers or dacoits
- 255. Public servant disobeying direction of law with intent to save a person from punishment or property from forfeiture
- 256. Public servant framing an incorrect record or writing with intent to save a person from punishment or property from forfeiture
- 257. Public servant in judicial proceeding corruptly making a report, etc., contrary to law
- 258. Commitment for trial or confinement by a person having authority who knows that he is acting contrary to law
- 259. Intentional omission to apprehend on the part of a public servant bound to apprehend
- 260. Intentional omission to apprehend on the part of a public servant bound to apprehend a person under sentence or lawfully committed
- 261. Escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by a public servant
- 262. Resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension
- 263. Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension of another person
- 264. Omission to apprehend, or sufferance of escape, on the part of a public servant, in cases not otherwise provided for
- 265. Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension or escape or rescue in cases not otherwise provided for
- 267. Intentional insult or interruption to a public servant sitting in a judicial proceeding
- 268. Personation of an assessor
- 269. Failure by a person released on a bail bond or bond to appear in Court