IPC Section 61: Sentence of forfeiture of property
Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Chapter 3: Punishments
Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS).
[Rep. by the Indian Penal Code (Amendment) Act, 1921 (16 of 1921), sec. 4.]
Bare act text for reference, current to 30 June 2024. It is not legal advice; check the official gazette for authoritative text.
Other sections in this chapter
- 53. Punishment
- 53A. Construction of reference to transportation
- 54. Commutation of sentence of death
- 55. Commutation of sentence of imprisonment for life
- 55A. Definition of "appropriate Government"
- 56. Sentence of Europeans and Americans to penal servitude
- 57. Fractions of terms of punishment
- 58. Offenders sentenced to transportation how dealt with until transported
- 59. Transportation instead of imprisonment
- 60. Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple
- 62. Forfeiture of property, in respect of offenders punishable with death, transportation or imprisonment
- 63. Amount of fine
- 64. Sentence of imprisonment for non-payment of fine
- 65. Limit to imprisonment for non-payment of fine, when imprisonment and fine awardable
- 66. Description of imprisonment for non-payment of fine
- 67. Imprisonment for non-payment of fine when offence punishable with fine only
- 68. Imprisonment to terminate on payment of fine
- 69. Termination of imprisonment on payment of proportional part of fine
- 70. Fine levied within six years, or during imprisonment- Death not to discharge property from liability
- 71. Limit of punishment of offence made up of several offences
- 72. Punishment of person guilty of one of several offences, the judgment stating that it is doubtful of which
- 73. Solitary confinement
- 74. Limit of solitary confinement
- 75. Enhanced punishment for certain offences under Chapter XII or Chapter XVII after previous conviction