Section 133
Power of confirming authority to mitigate, remit or commute sentences.
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the governance of the Assam Rifles, an Armed Force of the Union for ensuring the security of the borders of India, to carry out Counter Insurgency Operations in the specified areas and to act in aid of civil authorities for the maintenance of the law and order and for matters connected therewith.
Subject to such
restrictions, reservations or conditions, as may be contained in any warrant issued under section 130 or section 131, a confirming authority may, when confirming the sentence of an Assam Rifles Court,
mitigate or remit the punishment thereby awarded, or commute that punishment for any punishment or
punishment lower in the scale laid down in section 57.