This section covers sentence may be wholly or partly rigorous or simple in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Sentence maybe (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.
What was the old IPC code for Section 7 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, sentence may be wholly or partly rigorous or simple was covered in S. 60.