Sashastra Seema Bal Act, 2007
135. Execution of sentence of imprisonment.
1. Whenever
any sentence of imprisonment is passed under this Act by a Force Court or
whenever any sentence of death is commuted to imprisonment, the confirming
officer or in case of a Summary Force Court the officer holding the Court or
such other officer as may be prescribed shall, save as otherwise provided in
sub-sections (3) and (4), direct that the sentence shall be
carried out by confinement in a civil prison.
2. When a
direction has been made under sub-section (1), the commanding officer of
the person under sentence or such other officer as may be prescribed shall
forward a warrant in the prescribed form to the officer in charge of the prison
in which such person is to be confined and shall arrange for his dispatch to
such prison with the warrant.
3. In the
case of a sentence of imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months and
passed under this Act by a Force Court, the appropriate officer under
sub-section (1) may direct that the sentence shall be carried out by
confinement in Force custody instead of in a civil prison.
4. On
active duty, a sentence of imprisonment may be carried out by confinement in
such place as the officer not below the rank of Additional Deputy
Inspector-General within whose command the person sentenced is serving or any
prescribed officer may from time to time appoint.