Except where any other law otherwise provides, the State Government may direct in what place any person who is liable to be imprisoned or committed to custody under the Code is to be confined. If any such person is in a civil jail, the Court of Magistrate ordering the imprisonment or committal may direct that the person be removed to a criminal jail.
If the accused is sentenced to life-imprisonment, or to imprisonment for any term, in any case other than the cases covered by S. 413 (namely, where a case is submitted to a High Court for confirmation of a death-sentence), the Court which passes the sentence must immediately forward a warrant to the jail or other place in which he is confined, and unless the accused is already confined in such jail or other place, it must forward him to such jail or other place with the warrant.
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If, however, the accused is sentenced to imprisonment till the rising of the Court, it is not necessary to prepare such a warrant, and the accused may be confined in such place as the Court may direct.
If the accused is not present in the Court when he is sentenced to such imprisonment, the Court must issue a warrant for his arrest.
Every warrant for an execution of a sentence for imprisonment is to be directed to the officer-in-charge of the jail or other place in which the prisoner is confined. If the prisoner is to be confined in a jail, the warrant is to be lodged with the jailor. (S. 420)