CrPC Section 424 — Suspension of execution of sentence of imprisonment

Summary

Sub-section (1) applies when a person is sentenced only to a fine, with imprisonment if the fine is not paid, and does not pay the fine immediately. The Court may (a) allow the fine to be paid in full by a date no more than 30 days after the order, or in two or three instalments, with the first due within 30 days and each later instalment no more than 30 days after the previous one; and (b) suspend the imprisonment and release the person on a bond, with or without sureties, requiring them to appear before the Court on the payment date or dates. If the fine or an instalment is not paid by the latest date allowed under the order, the Court may direct that the imprisonment be carried out at once.

Sub-section (2) applies the same provisions when the Court has ordered a person to pay money and imprisonment may be awarded if the money is not recovered, but the money is not paid immediately. If the person, when required, does not enter into the bond described in sub-section (1), the Court may at once sentence them to imprisonment.

Official Text

(1) When an offender has been sentenced to fine only and to imprisonment in default of payment of the fine, and the fine is not paid forthwith, the Court may—

(a) order that the fine shall be payable either in full on or before a date not more than thirty days from the date of the order, or in two or three instalments, of which the first shall be payable on or before a date not more than thirty days from the date of the order and the other or others at an interval or at intervals, as the case may be, of not more than thirty days;

(b) suspend the execution of the sentence of imprisonment and release the offender, on the execution by the offender of a bond, with or without sureties, as the Court thinks fit, conditioned for his appearance before the Court on the date or dates on or before which payment of the fine or the instalments thereof, as the case may be, is to be made; and if the amount of the fine or of any instalment, as the case may be, is not realised on or before the latest date on which it is payable under the order, the Court may direct the sentence of imprisonment to be carried into execution at once.

(2) The provisions of sub-section (1) shall be applicable also in any case in which an order for the payment of money has been made on non-recovery of which imprisonment may be awarded and the money is not paid forthwith; and, if the person against whom the order has been made, on being required to enter into a bond such as is referred to in that sub-section, fails to do so, the Court may at once pass sentence of imprisonment. D.—General provisions regarding execution

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNSS §464 — Suspension of execution of sentence of imprisonment