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Remission and Commutation of Sentence (Section 432 & 433 CrPC / BNSS)
Criminal Procedure & Jurisprudence Terms
Definition
Remission: The reduction of the duration of a sentence without changing its legal character.
Commutation: The alteration of a harsher punishment to a lighter category (e.g., death sentence to life imprisonment).
Example
The State government exercises its statutory power of commutation under Section 433 CrPC to commute a convict's rigorous imprisonment of ten years to simple imprisonment for five years.