- Power to commute sentence.—
The appropriate Government may, without the consent of the person
sentenced, commute—
(a) a sentence of death, for any other punishment provided by the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860);
(b) a sentence of imprisonment for life, for imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years or for
fine;
(c) a sentence of rigorous imprisonment, for simple imprisonment for any term to which that person might
have been sentenced, or for fine;
(d) a sentence of simple imprisonment, for fine.
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