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.
BNS Section 7: Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple
Section 7 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 deals with sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple. It replaces IPC 60 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.
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Text of BNS Section 7
IPC sections replaced
- IPC 60: Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple
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