PART VI: THE JUDICIARY
Chapter I: The Supreme Court
103. Jurisdiction of Appellate Division
The Appellate Division shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine appeals from judgments, decrees, orders or sentences of the High Court Division.

An appeal to the Appellate Division from a judgment, decree, order or sentence of the High Court Division shall lie as of right where the High Court Division-

has confirmed a sentence of death or sentenced a person to death or to 62imprisonment for life ; or

THE PENAL CODE, 1860 (ACT NO. XLV OF 1860).

CHAPTER III- OF PUNISHMENTS

55. In every case in which sentence of 20[ imprisonment] for life shall have been passed, 21[ the Government] may, without the consent of the offender, commute the punishment for imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding 22[ twenty] years.

THE PENAL CODE, 1860 (ACT NO. XLV OF 1860).

CHAPTER III- OF PUNISHMENTS

57. In calculating fractions of terms of punishment, [ imprisonment] for life shall be reckoned as equivalent to [ rigorous imprisonment for thirty years].

THE PENAL CODE, 1860 (ACT NO. XLV OF 1860).

CHAPTER XI - OF FALSE EVIDENCE AND OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE

194. Whoever gives or fabricates false evidence, intending thereby to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause, any person to be convicted of an offence which is capital by any law for the time being in force, shall be punished with 70[ imprisonment] for life, or with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine;

and if an innocent person be convicted and executed in consequence of such false evidence, the person who gives such false evidence shall be punished either with death or the punishment herein before described.