BNS Section 7: Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter 2: Of Punishments
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7. In every case in which an offender is punishable with imprisonment which may be of either description, it shall be competent to the Court which sentences such offender to direct in the sentence that such imprisonment shall be wholly rigorous, or that such imprisonment shall be wholly simple, or that any part of such imprisonment shall be rigorous and the rest simple.
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Other sections in this chapter
- 4. Punishments
- 5. Commutation of sentence
- 6. Fractions of terms of punishment
- 8. Amount of fine, liability in default of payment of fine, etc
- 9. Limit of punishment of offence made up of several offences
- 10. Punishment of person guilty of one of several offences, judgment stating that it is doubtful of which
- 11. Solitary confinement
- 12. Limit of solitary confinement
- 13. Enhanced punishment for certain offences after previous conviction