BBanaka

IPC: Chapter 3: Punishments

Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS).

  1. Section 53. Punishment
  2. Section 53A. Construction of reference to transportation
  3. Section 54. Commutation of sentence of death
  4. Section 55. Commutation of sentence of imprisonment for life
  5. Section 55A. Definition of "appropriate Government"
  6. Section 56. Sentence of Europeans and Americans to penal servitude
  7. Section 57. Fractions of terms of punishment
  8. Section 58. Offenders sentenced to transportation how dealt with until transported
  9. Section 59. Transportation instead of imprisonment
  10. Section 60. Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple
  11. Section 61. Sentence of forfeiture of property
  12. Section 62. Forfeiture of property, in respect of offenders punishable with death, transportation or imprisonment
  13. Section 63. Amount of fine
  14. Section 64. Sentence of imprisonment for non-payment of fine
  15. Section 65. Limit to imprisonment for non-payment of fine, when imprisonment and fine awardable
  16. Section 66. Description of imprisonment for non-payment of fine
  17. Section 67. Imprisonment for non-payment of fine when offence punishable with fine only
  18. Section 68. Imprisonment to terminate on payment of fine
  19. Section 69. Termination of imprisonment on payment of proportional part of fine
  20. Section 70. Fine levied within six years, or during imprisonment- Death not to discharge property from liability
  21. Section 71. Limit of punishment of offence made up of several offences
  22. Section 72. Punishment of person guilty of one of several offences, the judgment stating that it is doubtful of which
  23. Section 73. Solitary confinement
  24. Section 74. Limit of solitary confinement
  25. Section 75. Enhanced punishment for certain offences under Chapter XII or Chapter XVII after previous conviction

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