Section 7 Earlier IPC 60
Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple
Chapter 2: Of punishments
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.
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 45 of 2023). As printed in the Gazette on 25 December 2023. Later amendments, if any, are not included.
Related sections
- 4PunishmentsIPC 53
- 5Commutation of sentenceIPC 54, 55
- 6Fractions of terms of punishmentIPC 57
- 8Amount of fine, liability in default of payment of fine, etcIPC 63, 64
- 9Limit of punishment of offence made up of several offencesIPC 71
- 10Punishment of person guilty of one of several offences, judgment stating that it is doubtful of whichIPC 72