Restriction on powers of remission or commutation in certain cases
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Summary
When a person is convicted of an offence for which the law provides death as one of the punishments, and is sentenced to life imprisonment, or a death sentence has been commuted to life, that person cannot be released from prison until they have served at least fourteen years.
Example
Ravi is convicted of murder, an offence punishable by death, and the court sentences him to life imprisonment. Under this rule he cannot be released from prison until he has served at least fourteen years, even if his original death sentence had been commuted to life.
Bare Act
Enacted textNotwithstanding anything contained in section 473, where a sentence of imprisonment for life is imposed on conviction of a person for an offence for which death is one of the punishments provided by law, or where a sentence of death imposed on a person has been commuted under section 474 into one of imprisonment for life, such person shall not be released from prison unless he had served at least fourteen years of imprisonment.
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