Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
BNS Section 7
Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple
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BNS Section 7 deals with sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple and replaces IPC 60.
Bare act text — BNS 7
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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What was BNS Section 7 in the IPC?
BNS Section 7 (Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple) replaces Section 60 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. IPC 60 is now BNS 7.
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- BNS 2 — Definitions
- BNS 3 — General explanations
- BNS 4 — Punishments
- BNS 5 — Commutation of sentence
- BNS 6 — Fractions of terms of punishment
- BNS 8 — Amount of fine, liability in default of payment of fine, etc
- BNS 9 — Limit of punishment of offence made up of several offences
- BNS 10 — Punishment of person guilty of one of several offences, judgment stating that it is doubtful of which
- BNS 11 — Solitary confinement
- BNS 12 — Limit of solitary confinement