The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
§416 — Postponement of capital sentence on pregnant woman
If a woman sentenced to death is found to be pregnant, the High Court shall [****], commute the sentence to imprisonment for life.
Old law ⇄ new law
Modifiedold law ⇄ new law
Old lawCRPC §416Postponement of capital sentence on pregnant womanNew lawBNSS §456Commutation of sentence of death on pregnant woman
CRPC §416 → BNSS §456 per the official NCRB Sankalan table. Marked "(Change)" — substance modified; compare texts.
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Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), English PDF (bitstream 123456789/15272/1/the_code_of_criminal_procedure,_1973.pdf, 1,879,339 bytes) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-07-16. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Repealed by BNSS 2023 w.e.f. 2024-07-01. Automated parse; footnotes/amendment history excluded; illustrations restored via illustration-aware re-extraction on 2026-07-19; spot-verified; full clause-level proofread pending.
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