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WARRANT AFTER A COMMUTATION OF A SENTENCE
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WARRANT AFTER A COMMUTATION OF A SENTENCE
(See Sections 386, 413 and 416)
To,
The Officer in charge of the Jail at……………………
Whereas at a Session held on the………………….. day of……………………..20………………….. (name
of prisoner), the (1st,2nd, 3rd, as the case may be) prisoner in case No………………………. of the
Calendar for 20………… at the said Session, was convicted of the offence of………….. punishable
under section …………. of the Indian Penal Code, and sentenced to……………. and was
thereupon committed to your custody ; and whereas by the order of the………….. Court
of………………. (a duplicate of which is hereunto annexed) the punishment adjudged by the said
sentence has been commuted to the punishment of imprisonment for life ;
This is to authorise and require you safely to keep the said (prisoner’s name) in your custody in
the said Jail, as the law is required, until he shall be delivered over by you to the proper
authority and custody for the purpose of his undergoing the punishment of imprisonment for life
under the said order,
Or
if the mitigated sentence is one of imprisonment, say, after the words “custody in the said Jail”,
“and there to carry into execution the punishment of imprisonment under the said order
according to law”.
Dated, this ……………………….. day of ………………., 20…
(Signature)
(Seal of the Court)
