BNS 13 — Enhanced punishment for certain offences after previous conviction.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

13. 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  a term of three years or upwards,
shall  be  guilty  of  any  offence  punishable  under  either  of  those  Chapters
with  like  imprisonment  for  the  like  term,  shall  be  subject  for  every  such
subsequent offence to imprisonment for life, or to imprisonment of either
description for a term which may extend to ten years.

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