1 When a person is convicted at one trial of two or more offences  the Court may  subject to the provisions of section 71 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860)  sentence him for such offences  to the several punishments  prescribed therefore which such Court is competent to inflict  such punishments when consisting of imprisonment to commence the one after the expiration of the other in such order as the Court may direct  unless the Court directs that such punishments shall run concurrently