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Section 475: Restriction on powers of remission or commutation in certain cases.

The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023Central Act · Act 46 of 2023

Notwithstanding anything contained in section 473, where a sentence of imprisonment for life is imposed on conviction of a person for an offence for which death is one of the punishments provided by law, or where a sentence of death imposed on a person has been commuted under section 474 into one of imprisonment for life, such person shall not be released from prison unless he had served at least fourteen years of imprisonment.

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ActThe Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
Section475
Marginal noteRestriction on powers of remission or commutation in certain cases.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it5

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