BNS 10 — Punishment of person guilty of one of several offences, judgment stating that it is doubtful of which.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

10. 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 not provided for all.
Solitary confinement.

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