This section covers enhanced punishment for certain offences in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS 2003).
Whoever, having been convicted by a Court in India, of an offence punishable under Chapter X or Chapter XVII of this Sanhita with imprisonment of either description for a term of three years or upwards, shall be guilty of any offence punishable under either of those Chapters with like imprisonment for the like term, shall be subject for every such subsequent offence to imprisonment for life, or to imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years.
What was the old IPC code for Section 13 of BNS 2023?
In the Indian Penal Code, enhanced punishment for certain offences was covered in S. 75.