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Section 7 – Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

CHAPTER II: OF PUNISHMENTS

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

Bare Act

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.

Simplified Act and examples below are previews.

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Simplified Act

  1. If someone is found guilty and can be punished wi

Explanation using examples

Example 1:

Ravi was convicted of theft under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023. The court had the option to sentence him to either rigorous impr