Compensation remains recoverable after default imprisonment because serving the default sentence does not discharge the payment liability.

Compensation ordered on conviction remains recoverable even after the accused has served the sentence in default of payment. The court applied the statutory scheme for recovery of fine and compensation, treating compensation as enforceable in the same manner, and relied on Supreme Court authority that default imprisonment does not discharge the liability. The petitioner therefore remained liable to pay the compensation amount, and the challenge to recovery failed.

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Issues: Whether compensation awarded on conviction remains recoverable even after the accused has undergone the sentence in default of payment.

Analysis: The Court applied the law that compensation directed to be paid on sentencing does not stand extinguished merely because the default sentence has been served. The statutory scheme under the provisions governing recovery of fine and compensation creates a legal fiction by which compensation can still be recovered in the manner provided for recovery of fine. Reliance was placed on the controlling Supreme Court exposition that undergoing the default imprisonment does not discharge the liability to pay compensation.

Conclusion: The petitioner remained liable to pay the compensation amount despite having undergone the default sentence, and the challenge to recovery failed.

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