TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government Enacted1962

Extradition Act, 1962 Section 34C

Provision of Life Imprisonment for Death Penalty

Section Text


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. ]