Section 395: Procedure if punishment cannot be inflicted under section 394

(1) In any case in which, under section 394, a sentence of whipping is, wholly or partially, prevented from being executed, the offender shall be kept in custody till the Court which passed the sentence can revise it; and the said Court may, at its discretion, either remit such sentence, or sentence the offender in lieu of whipping, or in lieu of so much of the sentence of whipping as was not executed, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months, [or to a fine not exceeding five hundred rupees], which may be in addition to any other punishment to which he may have been sentenced for the same offence. (2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to authorize any Court to inflict imprisonment for a term [or a fine of an amount] exceeding that to which the accused is liable by law, or that which the said Court is competent to inflict.

Effective date: 1898-07-01

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