Border Security Force Act, 1968 · Chapter IX: Execution of Sentence, Pardons, Remissions, Etc.
Section 122: Temporary custody of offender
Where a sentence of imprisonment is directed to be undergone in a civil prison the offender may be kept in Force custody or in any other fit place, till such time as it is possible to send him to a civil prison.
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