Criminal Procedure Code 155 (2) If, during the execution of a sentence of whipping, a Medical Officer certifies that the offender is not in a fit state of health to undergo the remainder of the sentence the whipping shall be finally stopped. (3) Where whipping is inflicted under section 293 a Medical Officer need not be present, but such whipping shall not be inflicted unless it appears to the Court that the offender is in a fit state of health to undergo the same. Procedure if whipping cannot be inflicted 291. (1) In any case in which under section 290 a sentence of whipping is wholly or partially prevented from being executed the offender shall be kept in custody till the Court which passed the sentence can revise it, and the said Court may in its discretion either remit the sentence or sentence the offender instead of whipping, or instead of so much of the sentence of whipping as was not executed, to imprisonment for a term which may extend to twenty-four months, which may be in addition to any other punishment to which he has been sentenced for the same offence. (2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to authorize any Court to inflict imprisonment for a term exceeding that to which the accused is liable by law or which the said Court is competent to inflict. Commencement of sentence of imprisonment on prisoner already undergoing imprisonment 292. (1) When a person who is an escaped convict or is undergoing a sentence of imprisonment is sentenced to imprisonment, such imprisonment shall commence either immediately or at the expiration of the imprisonment to which he has been previously sentenced, as the Court awarding the sentence may direct. (2) A sentence of death shall be executed notwithstanding the pendency of any sentence of imprisonment. (3) Nothing in subsection (1) shall be held to excuse any person from any part of the punishment to which he is liable upon his former or subsequent conviction.