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Under Section 104 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, when a person who is under a sentence of…

Section 104 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (replacing former Section 303 IPC, which had mandated death and was struck down in Mithu v. State of Punjab) expressly…

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Under Section 104 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, when a person who is under a sentence of imprisonment for life commits murder and the court imposes the alternative punishment of "imprisonment for life" instead of death, what does "imprisonment for life" statutorily mean under that section?

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Section 104 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (replacing former Section 303 IPC, which had mandated death and was struck down in Mithu v. State of Punjab) expressly states that whoever, being under sentence of imprisonment for life, commits murder, shall be punished with death or with imprisonment for life, "which shall mean the remainder of that person's natural life." It does not mean a fixed term of fourteen, twenty, or thirty years.

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