BNS Section 10 — Punishment of person guilty of one of several offences, judgment stating that it is doubtful of which
Section 10 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Punishment of person guilty of one of several offences, judgment stating that it is doubtful of which”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
10. Punishment of person guilty of one of several offences, judgment stating that it is doubtful of which.—In all cases in which judgment is given that a person is guilty of one of several offences specified in the judgment, but that it is doubtful of which of these offences he is guilty, the offender shall be punished for the offence for which the lowest punishment is provided if the same punishment is not provided for all. ¶
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