CrPC 427 — Sentence on offender already sentenced for another offence

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Statutory text

(1) When a person already undergoing a
sentence of imprisonment is sentenced on a subsequent conviction to imprisonment or imprisonment  for life,  such
imprisonment or imprisonment for life shall commence at the expiration of the imprisonment to which he has been
previously sentenced, unless the Court directs that the subsequent sentence shall run concurrently with such previous
sentence:
Provided that where a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment by an order under section 122 in default
of  furnishing  security  is,  whilst  undergoing  such  sentence,  sentenced  to  imprisonment  for  an  offence  committed prior to the making of such order, the latter sentence shall commence immediately.
(2) When  a  person  already  undergoing  a  sentence  of  imprisonment  for  life  is  sentenced  on  a  subsequent
conviction to imprisonment for a term or imprisonment for life, the subsequent sentence shall run concurrently with such previous sentence.

Back to CrPC