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Home Bare Acts Phrase: imprisonIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 69
Title: Termination of Imprisonment on Payment of Proportional Part of Fine
State: Central
Year: 1860
If, before the expiration of the term of imprisonment fixed in default of payment, such a proportion of the fine be paid or levied that the term of imprisonment suffered in default of payment is not less than proportional to the part of the fine still unpaid, the imprisonment shall terminate. Illustration A is sentenced to a fine of one hundred rupees and to four months' imprisonment in default of payment. Here, if seventy-five rupees of the fine be paid or levied before the expiration of one month of the imprisonment, A will be discharged as soon as the first month has expired. If seventy-five rupees be paid or levied at the time of the expiration of the first month, or at any later time while A continues in imprisonment, A will be immediately discharged. If fifty rupees of the fine be paid or levied before the expiration of two months of the imprisonment, A will be discharged as soon as the two months are completed. If fifty rupees be paid or levied at the time of the expiration of those two months, or at any later time while A continues in imprisonment, A will be immediately discharged.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 195
Title: Giving or Fabricating False Evidence with Intent to Procure Conviction of Offence Punishable with Imprisonment for Life or Imprisonment
State: Central
Year: 1860
Whoever gives or fabricates false evidence intending thereby to cause, or knowing it to be likely that be will thereby cause, any person to be convicted of an offence which1[by the law for the time being in force in2[India] is not capital, but punishable with3[imprisonment for life], or imprisonment for a term of seven years or upwards, shall be punished as a person convicted of that offence would be liable to be punished. Illustration A gives false evidence before a Court of Justice, intending thereby to cause Z to be convicted of a dacoity. The punishment of dacoity is3[imprisonment for life], or rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, with or without fine. A, therefore, is liable to [imprisonment for life] or imprisonment, with or without fine. ______________________ 1. Substituted by the A.O. 1948, for "by the law of British India or England". 2. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951, section 3 and Schedule, for "the States". 3. Substituted by Act 26 of 1955, section 117 and Schedule, for "transportation for life" (w.e.f. 1-1-1956).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 457
Title: Lurking House-trespass or House-breaking by Night in Order to Commit Offence Punishable with Imprisonment
State: Central
Year: 1860
.....court may, for adequate and special reasons to be me ntioned in the judgment, impose a sentence of imprisonment for a term of less than three years". 2[ State of Uttar Pradesh Amendment of section 457 - section 457 of the principal Act shall be renumbered as subsection (I) of that section and after sub section ( 1 ) as so renumbered, the following sub-section shall be added namely-- ( 2 ) Whoever commits lurking house trespass by night or house breaking by night in any building used as a place of worship in order to the committing of the offence of theft of any idol or icon from such buildings shall notwithstanding any thing contained in sub-section ( 1 ) be punished with rigorous imprisonment which shall not be less than three years but which may extend to fourteen years and with fine which shall not be less than five thousand rupees: Provided that the court may, for adequate and special reasons to be me ntioned in the judgment, impose a sentence of imprisonment for a term of less than three years. _________________ 1. Vide Tamil Nadu Act No. 28 of 1993 , section 5 . 2. Vide U.P.Act 24 of 1995 , section 11 .
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionNavy Act, 1957 Section 150
Title: Place of Imprisonment and Detention
State: Central
Year: 1957
.....of this Act, a person is sentenced to imprisonment or detention or has his sentence commuted to imprisonment or detention, the order in the prescribed form of the Central Government or the Chief of the Naval Staff or the officer ordering the court-martial by which such person was sentenced or the senior officer present in port or, if he was sentenced by the commanding officer of a ship, or other officer empowered under this Act to exercise like powers, the order in the prescribed form of such commanding officer or other officer, shall be a sufficient warrant for the sending of such person to the place of imprisonment or detention, as the case may be, thereto undergo the sentence according to law, or until he reaches such place of imprisonment or detention for detaining him in naval custody or in the case of a person sentenced to imprisonment, in any civil prison or place of confinement.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCode of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Section 30
Title: Sentence of Imprisonment in Default of Fine
State: Central
Year: 1973
(1) The Court of a Magistrate may award such term of imprisonment in default of payment of fine as is authorised by law: Provided that the term (a) is not in excess of the powers of the Magistrate under section 29; (b) shall not, where imprisonment has been awarded as part of the substantive sentence, exceed one-fourth of the term of imprisonment which the Magistrate is competent to inflict as punishment for the offence otherwise than as imprisonment in default of payment of the fine. (2) The imprisonment awarded under this section may be in addition to a substantive sentence of imprisonment for the maximum term awardable by the Magistrate under section 29.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionArmy Act, 1950 Section 169A
Title: Period of Custody Undergone by the Officer or Person to Be Set off Against the Imprisonment
State: Central
Year: 1950
1[ 169 A. Period of custody undergone by the officer or person to be set off against the imprisonment When a person or officer subject to this Act is sentenced by a court-martial to a term of imprisonment, not being an imprisonment in default of payment of fine, the period spent by him in civil or military custody during investigation, inquiry or trial of the same case, and before the date of order of such sentence, shall be set off against the term of imprisonment imposed upon him, and the liability of such person or officer to undergo imprisonment on such order of sentence shall be restricted to the remainder, if any, of the term of imprisonment imposed upon him.] _____________________ 1 . Inserted b y Act 37 of 1992 , sec. 17 (w .e.f 6 - 9 1992 ).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionAssam Rifles Act, 2006 Section 142
Title: Commencement of Sentence of Imprisonment
State: Central
Year: 2006
Whenever any person is sentenced by an Assam Rifles Court under this Act to imprisonment, the term of his sentence shall, whether it has been revised or not, be reckoned to commence on the day in which the original proceedings were signed by the presiding officer, or in the case of a Summary Assam Rifles Court, by the Court: Provided that when a person subject to this Act is sentenced by an Assam Rifles Court to a term of imprisonment, not being an imprisonment in default of payment of fine, the period spent by him in civil or Force custody during investigation, inquiry or trial of the same case, and before the date of order, such sentence shall be set off against the term of imprisonment imposed upon him and the liability of such person or officer to undergo imprisonment on such order of sentence shall be restricted to the remainder, if any, of the term of imprisonment imposed upon him.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 64
Title: Sentence of Imprisonment for Non-payment of Fine
State: Central
Year: 1860
1 [In every case, of an offence punishable with imprisonment as well as fine, in which the offender is sentenced to a fine, whether with or without imprisonment, and in every case of an offence punishable 2 [with imprisonment or fine, or] with fine only, in which the offender is sentenced to a fine,] it shall be competent to the Court which sentences such offender to direct by the sentence that, in default of payment of the fine, the offender shall suffer imprisonment for a certain term, in which imprisonment shall be in excess of any other imprisonment to which he may have been sentenced or to which he may be liable under a commutation of a sentence. _____________________ 1. Substituted by Act 8 of 1882, section 2 for "In every case in which an offender is sentenced to a fine". 2. Inserted by Act 10 of 1886, section 21 (2).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 115
Title: Abetment of Offence Punishable with Death or Imprisonment for Life--if Offence Not Committed
State: Central
Year: 1860
.....the abeltor shall be liable to imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to fourteen years, and shall also be liable to fine. Illustration A instigates B to murder 2. The offence is not committed. If B had murdered Z, he would have been subject to the punishment of death or3[imprisonment for life]. Therefore A is liable to imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years and also to a fine; and if any hurt be done to Z in consequence of the abetment, he will be liable to imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years, and to fine. ___________________ 1 . Substituted by Act 26 of 1955, section 117 and Schedule, for "transportation for life" (w.e.f. 1-1-1956).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) Section 511
Title: Punishment for Attempting to Commit Offences Punishable with Imprisonment for Life or Other Imprisonment
State: Central
Year: 1860
.....that offence], or with such fine as is provided for the offence, or with both. Illustrations (a) A makes an attempt to steal some jewels by breaking open a box, and finds after so opening the box, that there is no jewel in it. He has done an act towards the commission of theft, and therefore is guilty under this section. (b) A makes an attempt to pick the pocket of Z by thrusting hi s hand into Z's pocket. A fails in the attempt in consequence of Z's having nothing in hi s pocket. A is guilty under this section. ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 26 of 1955, section 117 and Schedule, for "transportation for life" (w.e.f. 1-1-1956). 2. Substituted by Act 26 of 1955, section 117 and Schedule, for certain original words (w.e.f. 1-1-1956).
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