Section 12 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Limit of solitary confinement”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
12. Limit of solitary confinement.—In executing a sentence of solitary confinement, such confinement shall in no case exceed fourteen days at a time, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of not less duration than such periods; and when the imprisonment awarded shall exceed three months, the solitary confinement shall not exceed seven days in any one month of the whole imprisonment awarded, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of not less duration than such periods. ¶
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