Section 57 in Indian Penal Codes
Title: Fractions of terms of punishment
Description:
In calculating fractions of terms of punishment, 56 [imprisonment] for life shall be reckoned as equivalent to 56 [imprisonment] for twenty years
Title: Offenders sentenced to transportation how dealt with until transported
Description:
Rep. by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 1955 (26 of 1955), sec. 117 and Sch. (w.e.f. 1-1-1956).]
Title: Transportation instead of imprisonment
Description:
[Rep. by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 1955 (26 of 1955), sec. 117 and Sch. (w.e.f. 1-1-1956).]
Title: Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple
Description:
In every case in which an offender is punishable with imprisonment which may be of either description, it shall be competent to the Court which sentences such offender to direct in the sentence that such imprisonment shall be wholly rigorous, or that such imprisonment shall be wholly simple, or that any part of such imprisonment shall be rigorous and the rest simple.
Title: Sentence of forfeiture of property
Description:
[Rep. by the Indian Penal Code (Amendment) Act, 1921 (16 of 1921), sec. 4.]