Section 34C. Provision of life imprisonment for death penalty
1[34C. Provision of life imprisonment for death penalty.--Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, where a fugitive criminal, who has committed an extradition offence punishable with death in India, is surrendered or returned by a foreign State on the request of the Central Government and the laws of that foreign State do not provide for a death penalty for such an offence, such fugitive criminal shall be liable for punishment of imprisonment for life only for that offence.]
Judgements applying section 34C
Abu Salem; extradition from Portugal; solemn sovereign assurance dated 17.12.2002; death penalty barred; 25-year cap; Article 72(1) and Article 74 Constitution; pardon, reprieve, remit, commute; Sections 432 and 433 CrPC; comity of courts; principle of speciality; set off under Section 428 CrPC;
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