INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860
BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023
73. Solitary confinement
11. Solitary confinement.
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INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860
73. Solitary confinement.--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.
Repealed / historical reference India Code — IPC 1860
BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023
11. Solitary confinement.—Whenever any person is convicted of an offence for which under this
Sanhita 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, namely: —
(a) a time not exceeding one month if the term of imprisonment shall not exceed six months;
(b) a time not exceeding two months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed six months and
shall not exceed one year;
(c) a time not exceeding three months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed one year.
Current law India Code — BNS 2023