1[34C. Provision of life imprisonment for death penalty.--Notwithstanding anything contained
in any other law for the time being in force, where a fugitive criminal, who has committed an
extradition offence punishable with death in India, is surrendered or returned by a foreign State on the
request of the Central Government and the laws of that foreign State do not provide for a death
penalty for such an offence, such fugitive criminal shall be liable for punishment of imprisonment for
life only for that offence.]
1. Subs. by s. 17, ibid., for section 34 (w.e.f. 18-12-1993).