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The full text of the Agreement on Transfer of Sentenced Persons signed by the Republic of India and the Federal Republic of Brazil on 15.10.2013 is given below. The Agreement was ratified by the Republic of India on 1.1.2014 and by the Federal Republic of Brazil on 24.10.2018. The Instruments of Ratification were exchanged on 24.1.2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA AND FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL ON THE TRANSFER OF SENTENCED PERSONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Republic of India and the Federative Republic of Brazil hereinafter referred to as the Contracting States;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Desiring to facilitate the social rehabilitation of sentenced persons into their own countries; and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Considering that this objective should be fulfilled by giving foreigners, who have been convicted and sentenced as a result of their commission of a criminal offence, the opportunity to serve their sentences within their own society;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Have agreed as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ARTICLE 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Definitions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the purpose of this Agreement:<br \/>\n(a) \u201cJudgment\u201d means a decision or order of a court or tribunal imposing a sentence;<br \/>\n(b) \u201cReceiving State\u201d means a State to which the sentenced person may be, or has been, transferred in order to serve his sentence;<br \/>\n(c) \u201cSentence\u201d means any punishment or measure involving deprivation of liberty ordered by a court or tribunal for a determinate period of time, in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction;<br \/>\n(d) \u201cSentenced person\u201d means a person who is serving a definitive and enforceable sentence in the transferring State under a judgment passed by a criminal court in the Contracting States;<br \/>\n(e) \u201cTransferring State\u201d means the State in which the sentence was imposed on the person who may be, or has been transferred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Note: Please follow the link for detailed notification &#8211;<a 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