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Whenever any person is convicted of an offence for which under this Sanhita 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 […]

In all cases in which judgment is given that a person is guilty of one of several offences specified in the judgment, but that it is doubtful of which of these offences he is guilty, the offender shall be punished for the offence for which the lowest punishment is provided if the same punishment is

(1) Where anything which is an offence is made up of parts, any of which parts is itself an offence, the offender shall not be punished with the punishment of more than one of such his offences, unless it be so expressly provided. (2) (a) Where anything is an offence falling within two or more

Formerly Sections 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69 & 70 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). (1) Where no sum is expressed to which a fine may extend, the amount of fine to which the offender is liable is unlimited, but shall not be excessive. (2) In every case of an offence––(a) punishable with

Formerly Section 60 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). 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

Formerly Section 57 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) In calculating fractions of terms of punishment, imprisonment for life shall be reckoned as equivalent to imprisonment for twenty years unless otherwise provided.

Formerly Sections 54, 55, and 55A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The appropriate Government may, without the consent of the offender, commute any punishment under this Sanhita to any other punishment in accordance with section 474 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. Explanation.—For the purposes of this section the expression “appropriate Government” means,

Formerly Section 53 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) The punishments to which offenders are liable under the provisions of this Sanhita are—(a) Death;(b) Imprisonment for life, that is to say, imprisonment for remainder of a person’snatural life;(c) Imprisonment, which is of two descriptions, namely:— (1) Rigorous, that is, with hard labour; (2) Simple;(d) Forfeiture

(1) Throughout this Sanhita every definition of an offence, every penal provision, and every Illustration of every such definition or penal provision, shall be understood subject to the exceptions contained in the Chapter entitled “General Exceptions”, though those exceptions are not repeated in such definition, penal provision, or Illustration.Illustrations.(a) The sections, in this Sanhita which

In this Sanhita unless the context otherwise requires,–– (1) “act” as well a series of acts as a single act; (2) “animal” means any living creature, other than a human being; (3) “counterfeit”.––A person is said to “counterfeit” who causes one thing to resemble another thing, intending by means of that resemblance to practice deception,