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Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 Section 13 : Enhanced punishment for certain offences after previous conviction : (See section 75 of IPC 1860) Whoever, having been convicted by a Court in India, of an offence punishable under Chapter X or Chapter XVII of this Sanhita with imprisonment of either description for…
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 Section 12 : Limit of solitary confinement : (See section 74 of IPC 1860) In executing a sentence of solitary confinement, such confinement shall in no case exceed fourteen days at a time, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of not less duration than…
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 Section 11 : Solitary confinement : (See section 73 of IPC 1860) 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…
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 Section 10 : Punishment of person guilty of one of several offences, judgment stating that it is doubtful of which : (See section 72 of IPC 1860) In all cases in which judgment is given that a person is guilty of one of several offences specified…
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 Section 9 : Limit of punishment of offence made up of several offences : (See section 71 of IPC 1860) (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…
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 Section 8 : Amount of fine, liability in default of payment of fine, etc : (See section 63 to 70 of IPC 1860) (1) Where no sum is expressed to which a fine may extend, the amount of fine to which the offender is liable is…
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 Section 7 : Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple : (See section 60 of IPC 1860) In every case in which an offender is punishable with imprisonment which may be of either description, it shall be competent to…
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 Section 6 : Fractions of terms of punishment : (See section 57 of IPC 1860) In calculating fractions of terms of punishment, imprisonment for life shall be reckoned as equivalent to imprisonment for twenty years unless otherwise provided. Indian Penal Code 1860 (IPC 1860) Section 57…
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 Section 5 : Commutation of sentence : (See section 54, 55, 55A of IPC 1860) 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,…
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 Chapter II : Of Punishments : Section 4 : Punishments : (See section 53 of IPC 1860) The punishments to which offenders are liable under the provisions of this Sanhita are— (a) Death; (b) Imprisonment for life; (c) Imprisonment, which is of two descriptions, namely:— (1)…