Section 64. Sentence of imprisonment for non-payment of fine
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Act
Indian Penal Code, 1860
Section number
64
Section reader
Indian Penal Code, 1860
64. Sentence of imprisonment for non-payment of fine
47 [In every case, of an offence punishable with imprisonment as well as fine, in which the offender is sentenced to a fine, whether with or without imprisonment, and in every case of an offence punishable 34[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 to which he may have been sentenced or to which he may be liable under a commutation of a sentence.
