Section 235, THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACTS, 1965

Where it appears to the Court that distress and sale of his goods and chattels would be ruinous to the personconvicted and ordered to pay money for a fine or penalty and his family, or (by his confession or otherwise) that he has no goods whereon a distress may be levied, or other sufficient reason appears to the Court, the Court may, if it thinks fit, instead of or after issuing a warrant of distress commit him to prison for a period specified in the warrant, unless the money and all expenses of the commitment and conveyance to prison, to be specified in the warrant, are sooner paid. Fines, detention in police station in lieu of imprisonment.