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Section 73 - Indian Penal Code, 1860
Indian Penal Code, 1860
73. Solitary confinement
Whenever any person is convicted of an offence for which under this Code the Court has power to sentence him to rigorous imprisonment, the Court may, by its sentence, order that the offender shall be kept in solitary confinement for any portion or portions of the imprisonment to which he is sentenced, not exceeding three months in the whole, according to the following scale, that is to say-
a time not exceeding one month if the term of imprisonment shall not exceed six months;
a time not exceeding two months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed six months and 48[shall not exceed one] year;
a time not exceeding three months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed one year.
Related Sections
- Section 84: Act of a person of-unsound mind
- Section 318: Concealment of birth by secret disposal of dead body
- Section 373: Buying minor for purposes of prostitution, etc
- Section 474: Having possession of document described in section 466 or 467, knowing it to be forged and intending to use it as genuine
- Section 131: Abetting mutiny, or attempting to seduce a soldier, sailor or airman from his duty
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