BNS 7 — Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

7. 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 wholly simple,
or that any part of such imprisonment shall be rigorous and the rest simple.
Amount of fine, liability in default of payment of fine, etc.

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