When a person is convicted in a single trial of two or more offences, the Court may, subject to the provisions of Section 71 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), sentence him for the respective offences with the corresponding punishments that the Court is authorized to impose. If the punishments involve imprisonment, they will begin consecutively—one after the other—in the order specified by the Court, unless the Court directs that the sentences run concurrently.
In the case of consecutive sentences, the Court does not need to send the offender to a higher Court merely because the total punishment exceeds the punishment it is competent to impose for a single offence.
However, the following conditions apply:
For the purposes of an appeal by a convicted person, the aggregate of consecutive sentences imposed under this section shall be treated as a single sentence.
