CN-0156Concepts · Criminal · Wanted
Remission and Commutation
Scope
The executive’s statutory power to shorten or change a sentence, the fourteen-year minimum for life convicts, and who the appropriate government is.
Authorities to start from
- Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, §§ 432–433A (now Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, §§ 473–475)
- Union of India v. V. Sriharan, (2016) 7 SCC 1
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