(4) The imprisonment which the Court imposes in default of payment of a fine or in default of community service may be of any description to which the offender might have been sentenced for the offence.
IPC Section 66 in BNS: Section 8(4)
Description of imprisonment for non-payment of fine
Section 66 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Description of imprisonment for non-payment of fine) corresponds to Section 8(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, in force from 1 July 2024.
Text of BNS Section 8(4)
Full BNS Section 8 and every IPC section it replaced →
Other IPC sections now in BNS 8
- IPC 63: Amount of fine → BNS 8
- IPC 64: Sentence of imprisonment for non-payment of fine → BNS 8(2)
- IPC 65: Limit to imprisonment for non-payment of fine, when imprisonment and fine awardable → BNS 8(3)
- IPC 67: Imprisonment for non-payment of fine, when offence punishable with fine only → BNS 8(5)
- IPC 68: Imprisonment to terminate on payment of fine → BNS 8(6)
- IPC 69: Termination of imprisonment on payment of proportional part of fine → BNS 8(6)
- IPC 70: Fine leviable within six years, of during imprisonment. Death not to discharge property from → BNS 8(7)
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