CrPC 433 — Power to commute sentence

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Statutory text

The  appropriate  Government  may,  without  the  consent  of  the  person sentenced, commute—
(a) a sentence of death, for any other punishment provided by the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860);
(b) a  sentence  of  imprisonment  for  life,  for  imprisonment  for  a  term  not  exceeding  fourteen  years  or  for
fine;
(c) a sentence of rigorous imprisonment, for simple imprisonment for any term to which that person might
have been sentenced, or for fine;
(d) a sentence of simple imprisonment, for fine.

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