Power of Court to require released offenders to pay compensation and costs

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Statutory text

(1) The Court directing the release of an offender under section 3 or section 4 may, if it thinks fit, make at the same time a further order directing him to pay--
- (a) such compensation as the Court thinks reasonable for loss or injury caused to any person by the commission of the offence ; and
- (b) such cost of the proceedings as the Court thinks reasonable.
(2) The amount ordered to be paid under sub-section
(1) may be recovered as a fine in accordance with the provisions of sections 386 and 387 of the Code.
(3) A Civil Court trying any suit, arising out of the same matter for which the offender is prosecuted, shall take into account any amount paid or recovered as compensation under sub-section
(1) in awarding damages.

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