(1) If a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment is sentenced to imprisonment for more than one offence, he shall be sentenced to imprisonment as follows:-
(a) If the term of imprisonment according to the earlier judgment is greater than or equal to the term of imprisonment according to the latest judgment, the imprisonment sentence of the earlier judgment shall be executed.
(b) If the period of the subsequent imprisonment sentence is more than the period of the previous imprisonment sentence, the imprisonment shall be extended to the period which is longer than the period of the last imprisonment sentence.
(2) Notwithstanding anything written in sub-section (1), a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment for an offense and has not been sentenced to imprisonment for another offense shall serve the subsequent imprisonment sentence in such a way that the earlier imprisonment period is calculated after the payment of such sentence.
(3) In the same case, if the same person has been sentenced to different terms of imprisonment for different offenses in accordance with the prevailing law, only the sentence of imprisonment for the highest offense shall be executed.
(4) If the punishment of imprisonment prescribed under sub-section (3) is equal, only one of such punishments shall be executed.
(5) Notwithstanding anything else written in this section, if a separate punishment is prescribed in the law in relation to a single offender or in relation to an integrated offence, the same sentence shall be enforced.