Section 11

Solitary confinement.

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Act 45 of 2023
Ministry of Home Affairs
Department of Internal Security

About this Act

An Act to consolidate and amend the provisions relating to offences and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

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Chapter II: Of punishments Sections 4 to 13

    Whenever any person is convicted of an offence for which under this Sanhita the Court has power to sentence him to rigorous imprisonment, the Court may, by its sentence, order that the offender shall be kept in solitary confinement for any portion or portions of the imprisonment to which he is sentenced, not exceeding three months in the whole, according to the following scale, namely: —
    (a) a time not exceeding one month if the term of imprisonment shall not exceed six months;
    (b) a time not exceeding two months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed six months and shall not exceed one year;
    (c) a time not exceeding three months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed one year.