BNS Section 266 — Violation of condition of remission of punishment
Section 266 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Violation of condition of remission of punishment”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
266. Violation of condition of remission of punishment.—Whoever, having accepted any conditional remission of punishment, knowingly violates any condition on which such remission was granted, shall be punished with the punishment to which he was originally sentenced, if he has already suffered no part of that punishment, and if he has suffered any part of that punishment, then with so much of that punishment as he has not already suffered. ¶
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