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Home › Bare Acts › Indian Penal Code, 1860 › Section 57

Chapter III — Of Punishments

Section 57 — Fractions of terms of punishment

Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Free to read

Now: BNS Section 6 – Fractions of terms of punishment · IPC → BNS table

In calculating fractions of terms of punishment, [imprisonment] for life shall be reckoned as equivalent to [imprisonment] for twenty years.

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