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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Extradition Act, 1962 Section 34C

PROVISION OF LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR DEATH PENALTY Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being

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Extradition Act, 1962 Section 34C is part of Extradition Act, 1962 - PROVISION OF LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR DEATH PENALTY Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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SECTION 34C: PROVISION OF LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR DEATH PENALTY Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, where a fugitive criminal, who has committed an extradition offence punishable with death in India, is surrendered or returned by a foreign State on the request of the Central Government and the laws of that foreign State do not provide for a death penalty for such an offence, such fugitive criminal shall be liable for punishment of imprisonment for life only for that offence.]

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Section Section 34C of the Extradition Act, 1962 (PROVISION OF LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR DEATH PENALTY Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being) is reproduced on this page as part of the Extradition Act, 1962. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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