double life imprisonment

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Double Life Imprisonment in India

 Like everyone human being has one life, as prisoners has also one life to live so prisoners cannot serve consecutive sentences of life imprisonment. But according to Supreme court constitutional bench life sentence would be twice or thrice of the heinous crimes like rape murder, etc. The court said that multiple life imprisonment will be served consecutively. Chief Justice of India has interpreted the law that in multiple imprisonment prisoners would be anomalous and irrational. 

According to Section 31 of CrPC, when a person is convicted in one trial for two or more offences, the convict may serve them one after the other unless the court directs that they may be served concurrently.

However, in case of multiple life sentences, they are to be served concurrently and not consecutively as the life sentence by default continues to the end of one's life .

In case of a double life imprisonment, a sentence is superimposed on another sentence. That is, even if one sentence is remitted, the next sentence would kick in depriving the convict the ability to enjoy the remission of the first sentence. In cases where both a life sentence and a limited-term sentence are awarded, the convict will serve the term sentence before graduating to the life sentence.

Hence it depends case to case.

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