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IPC Section 73: Solitary confinement

Indian Penal Code, 1860 · Chapter 3: Punishments

Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS).

Whenever any person is convicted of an offence for which under this Code the Court has power to sentence him to rigorous imprisonment, the Court may, by its sentence, order that the offender shall be kept in solitary confinement for any portion or portions of the imprisonment to which he is sentenced, not exceeding three months in the whole, according to the following scale, that is to say—

a time not exceeding one month if the term of imprisonment shall not exceed six months;

a time not exceeding two months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed six months and 1[shall not exceed one] year

a time not exceeding three months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed one year.

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1. Subs. by Act 8 of 1862, s. 5, for “be less than a”.

Study: explanations and related material

Now BNS 11 (same provision). IPC → BNS converterSource: BPR&D BNS–IPC corresponding section table (UP Police, 2024-06-28), p3

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