44. Enhanced punishment after previous conviction.
- If any person, after having been previously convicted of an offence punishable under Section 34, 35, 37, 38 or 40 or under the corresponding provisions of any enactment repealed by this Act, subsequently commits and is convicted of an offence punishable under any of those sections, he shall be liable to twice the punishment which might be imposed on a first conviction under this Act : Provided that nothing in this section shall prevent any offence which might otherwise have been tried summarily under Chapter XXI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 from being so tried.
