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Under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, imprisonment for life means, imprisonment for:-

As the Supreme Court held in Gopal Vinayak Godse and later cases, imprisonment for life means imprisonment for the whole of the remaining natural life of the convict, unless…

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Under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, imprisonment for life means, imprisonment for:-

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As the Supreme Court held in Gopal Vinayak Godse and later cases, imprisonment for life means imprisonment for the whole of the remaining natural life of the convict, unless the appropriate government lawfully remits or commutes it. Section 6 BNS (formerly s.57 IPC), which counts life as twenty years, applies only to calculating fractions of terms, and fourteen years is only the minimum actual custody required by section 475 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (formerly s.433A CrPC) before release on remission in certain cases.

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