Power of State Government to commute sentence of incorrigibles

Where a person detained in a Borstal school is reported to the '[State Government] by the '[Superintendent] of such school to be incorrigible or to be exercising a bad influence on the other inmates of the school '[or in the case of a person directed to be sent to a Borstal school before the commencement of the Madras Borstal Schools (Amendment) Act, 1936, to be over twenty-three years of age], the '[State Government] may commute the unexpired residue

1. (c) the maximum period of imprisonment which the Court that tried him had authority to award under the * Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, whichever is shortest.