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BNSS Section 467: Sentence on offender already sentenced for another offence

Section 467 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 deals with sentence on offender already sentenced for another offence. It replaces CrPC 427 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

Text of BNSS Section 467

467. (1) When a person already undergoing a sentence of imprisonment is sentenced on a subsequent conviction to imprisonment or imprisonment for life, such imprisonment or imprisonment for life shall commence at the expiration of the imprisonment to which he has been previously sentenced, unless the Court directs that the subsequent sentence shall run concurrently with such previous sentence:

Provided that where a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment by an order under section 141 in default of furnishing security is, whilst undergoing such sentence, sentenced to imprisonment for an offence committed prior to the making of such order, the latter sentence shall commence immediately.

(2) When a person already undergoing a sentence of imprisonment for life is sentenced on a subsequent conviction to imprisonment for a term or imprisonment for life, the subsequent sentence shall run concurrently with such previous sentence.

Period of detention undergone by accused to be set off against sentence of imprisonment.

CrPC sections replaced

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