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Section 60 - Indian Penal Code, 1860
Indian Penal Code, 1860
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.
Related Sections
- Section 52: Good faith
- Section 347: Wrongful confinement to extort property, or constrain to illegal act
- Section 333: Voluntarily causing grievous hurt to deter public servant from his duty
- Section 49: Year, Month
- Section 352: Punishment for assault or criminal force otherwise than on grave provocation
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