This section covers limit of solitary confinement in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Limit of Solitary Confinement
In executing a sentence of solitary confinement, such confinement shall in no case exceed fourteen days at a time, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of not less duration than such periods; and when the imprisonment awarded shall exceed three months, the solitary confinement shall not exceed seven days in any one month of the whole imprisonment awarded, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of not less duration than such periods.
What was the old IPC code for Section 12 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, limit of solitary confinement was covered in S. 74.