Article 6 - Fractions of terms of punishment | Article 7 Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple. | The Bharatiya Nyaya Sahinta 2023 | CHAPTER II - OF PUNISHMENTS

  The Bharatiya Nyaya Sahinta 2023

CHAPTER II - OF PUNISHMENTS   

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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