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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.
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- Section 495: Same offence with concealment of former marriage from person with whom subsequent marriage is contracted
- Section 144: Joining unlawful assembly armed with deadly weapon
- Section 186: Obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions
- Section 35: When such an act is criminal by reason of its being done with a criminal knowledge or intention
- Section 318: Concealment of birth by secret disposal of dead body
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