BNS Section 7 — Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple
Section 7 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 addresses “Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple”. Read the provision below with its qualifications, exceptions and chapter context; the official source is linked alongside it.
7. Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple.—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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