IPC Section 66 — Description of imprisonment for non-payment of fine

Summary

If a court orders a fine and the person does not pay it, the court can send them to prison instead. The type of imprisonment for not paying the fine can be any kind of imprisonment that the court could have given for the original offence.

Official Text

The imprisonment which the Court imposes in default of payment of a fine may be of any description to which the offender might have been sentenced for the offence.

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNS §8 — Amount of fine, liability in default of payment of fine, etc