(1) Where a person is sentenced to death by the High Court and an appeal from
its judgment lies to the Supreme Court under sub-clause (a) or sub-clause (b) of clause (1)
of article 134 of the Constitution, the High Court shall order the execution of the sentence to
be postponed until the period allowed for preferring such appeal has expired, or if, an appeal
is preferred within that period, until such appeal is disposed of.
(2) Where a sentence of death is passed or confirmed by the High Court, and the
person sentenced makes an application to the High Court for the grant of a certificate under
article 132 or under sub-clause (c) of clause (1) of article 134 of the Constitution, the High
Court shall order the execution of the sentence to be postponed until such application is
disposed of by the High Court, or if a certificate is granted on such application, until the
period allowed for preferring an appeal to the Supreme Court on such certificate has expired.
(3) Where a sentence of death is passed or confirmed by the High Court, and the High
Court is satisfied that the person sentenced intends to present a petition to the Supreme
Court for the grant of special leave to appeal under article 136 of the Constitution, the High
Court shall order the execution of the sentence to be postponed for such period as it
considers sufficient to enable him to present such petition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(1) Where a person is sentenced to death by the High Court and an appeal fromits judgment lies to the Supreme Court under sub-clause (a) or sub-clause (b) of clause (1)of article 134 of the Constitution, the High Court shall order the execution of the sentence tobe postponed until the period allowed for preferring such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[125,124,134,132,130,136,137,126,127,123,129,128,133,111,135,112,121,122,113,114,131],"class_list":["post-2130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-bharatiya-nagarik-suraksha-sanhita-bnss","tag-bharatiya-nagarik-suraksha-sanhita-2023","tag-bhartiya-nagrik-suraksha-sanhita","tag-bnss-2024-india","tag-bnss-all-sections","tag-bnss-bare-act","tag-bnss-chapter-wise-sections","tag-bnss-fir-section","tag-bnss-full-form","tag-bnss-pdf-download","tag-bnss-sections-in-hindi","tag-bnss-sections-list","tag-bnss-vs-crpc","tag-crpc-replaced-by-bnss","tag-expert-vakil","tag-expert-vakil-bnss","tag-expertvakil","tag-indian-kanoon","tag-indiankanoon","tag-ishan-tathagat","tag-ishantathagat","tag-new-criminal-law-india"],"yoast_head":"\n