The Bharatiya Nyaya Sahinta 2023
CHAPTER II - OF PUNISHMENTS
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The Bharatiya Nyaya Sahinta 2023 |
Article 6
Fractions of terms of punishment
In calculating fractions of terms of punishment, imprisonment for life shall be reckoned
as equivalent to imprisonment for twenty years unless otherwise provided.
Article 7
Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple.
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.
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