A Metropolitan Magistrate can award sentence of imprisonment in default of payment of fine ........

Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) 1973 Complaints to Magistrates

A Metropolitan Magistrate can award sentence of imprisonment in default of payment of fine:

equal to the term of imprisonment which he is competent to inflict as substantive punishment

not exceeding half of the term of imprisonment which he is competent to inflict as substantive sentence

not exceeding one-third of the term of imprisonment which he is competent to inflict as substantive sentence

not exceeding one-fourth of the term of imprisonment which he is competent to inflict as substantive sentence.

not exceeding one-fourth of the term of imprisonment which he is competent to inflict as substantive sentence.

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