Section 59 in Indian Penal Codes

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.]

Title: Forfeiture of property in respect of offenders punishable with death transportation or imprisonment

Description: [Rep. by the Indian Penal Code (Amendment) Act, 1921 (16 of 1921) sec. 4.]

Title: Amount of fine

Description: Where no sum is expressed to which a fine may extend, the amount of fine to which the offender is liable is unlimited, but shall not be excessive.