Chapter VIII - RECIPROCAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR ASSISTANCE IN CERTAIN MATTERS AND PROCEDURE FOR ATTACHMENT AND FORFEITURE OF PROPERTY (From Section 111 to Section 124)
Power to commute sentence permits the government to convert or reduce imprisonments and substitute fines in specified cases. Power to commute sentence authorises the appropriate Government to alter criminal sentences without the sentenced person's consent, permitting conversion of a death sentence to life imprisonment, reduction of life imprisonment to a term of years, commutation of long-term imprisonment to shorter terms, substitution of shorter imprisonment with a fine, and conversion of rigorous imprisonment to simple imprisonment for any permissible term.
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Power to commute sentence permits the government to convert or reduce imprisonments and substitute fines in specified cases.
Power to commute sentence authorises the appropriate Government to alter criminal sentences without the sentenced person's consent, permitting conversion of a death sentence to life imprisonment, reduction of life imprisonment to a term of years, commutation of long-term imprisonment to shorter terms, substitution of shorter imprisonment with a fine, and conversion of rigorous imprisonment to simple imprisonment for any permissible term.
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