Section 5 — Power of court to require released offenders to pay compensation and costs.

5. Power of court to require released offenders to pay compensation and costs.—(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 costs 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.