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Section 7 - The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
The 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.
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- Section 133: Assault or criminal force with intent to dishonor person, otherwise than on grave provocation
- Section 5: Commutation of sentence
- Section 222: Omission to assist public servant when bound by law to give assistance
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