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.
IPC Section 60 in BNS: Section 7
Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple
Section 60 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple) corresponds to Section 7 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, in force from 1 July 2024.
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