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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 249: Altering appearance of Indian coin with intent that it shall pass as coin of different description
- Section 166: Public servant disobeying law, with intent to cause injury to any person
- Section 57: Fractions of terms of punishment
- Section 158: Being hired to take part in an unlawful assembly or riot
- Section 225: Resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension of another person
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