BNSS · Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
Section 475 — Restriction on powers of remission or commutation in certain cases.
Replaces CrPC Section 433A.
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.
Nearby sections
- 472 Mercy petition in death sentence cases.
- 473 Power to suspend or remit sentences.
- 474 Power to commute sentence.
- 476 Concurrent power of Central Government in case of death sentences.
- 477 State Government to act after concurrence with Central Government in certain cases.
- 478 In what cases bail to be taken.
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