INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860
BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023
60. Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly
7. Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple.
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INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860
Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly
rigorous or simple.
60. 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.
Repealed / historical reference India Code — IPC 1860
BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023
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.
Current law India Code — BNS 2023