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(1) When an appellate court directs that the execution of a sentence or order appealed against, be suspended, the appellant shall, if detained in prison pending further orders of such court, be treated in all respects as an undertrial prisoner. (2) If the appellant is ultimately sentenced to imprisonment or imprisonment for life, the period during which the original sentence was suspended shall, - (a) if sentence be passed while the prisoner was in prison as an undertrial in the same case, be included; and (b) if sentence be passed when the prisoner was at large or was in prison as a convict, be excluded, in computing the term for which he is sentenced by the appellate court. Imprisonment awarded to an escaped convict.