## IPC 64

### IPC 64 — Sentence of imprisonment for non-payment of fine
- https://unisonlegal.in/statutes/ipc/64

> 64. Sentence of imprisonment for non-payment of fine.-3[In every case of an offence punishable
with imprisonment as well as fine, in which the offender is sentenced to a fine, whether with or without
imprisonment,
and in every case of an offence punishable 4[with imprisonment or fine, or] with fine only, in which
the offender is sentenced to a fine.]
it shall be competent to the Court which sentences such offender to direct by the sentence that, in
default of payment of the fine, the offender shall suffer imprisonment for a certain term, which
imprisonment shall be in excess of any other imprisonment to which he may have been sentenced or to
which he may be liable under a commutation of a sentence.