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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.
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- Section 203: Giving false information respecting an offence committed
- Section 119: Public servant concealing design to commit offence which it is his duty to prevent
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