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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.
Related Sections
- Section 338: Forgery of Valuable security, will, etc
- Section 226: Attempt to commit suicide to compel or restrain exercise of lawful power
- Section 282: Rash navigation of vessel
- Section 318: Cheating
- Section 354: Act caused by inducing person to believe that he will be rendered an object of Divine displeasure
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