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IPC Section 64 - Sentence of impriso nment for non-payment of fine
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Simple language explanation
IPC Section 64 deals with sentence of impriso nment for non-payment of fine.
Full official legal text
64. Sentence of impriso nment for non-payment of fine. 3[In every case of an offence punishable
with imprisonment as well as fine, in which the offender is sentenced to a fine, whethe r with or without
imprisonment,
and in every case of an offence punishable 4[with imprisonment or fine, or] with fine only, in which
the offender is sentenced to a fine.]
it shall be competent to the Court which sentences such offender to direct by the sentence that, in
default of payment of the fine, the offender shall suffer imprisonment for a certain term, which
imprisonment shall be in excess of any other imprisonment t o which he may have been sentenced or to
which he may be liable under a commutation of a sentence.
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