Section 7, Sentence may be wholly or partly rigorous or simple, The Bharitya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS)

Section 7. Sentence may be (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.

Comments

Section 7 of BNS, 2023 provides that court can impose the sentence of imprisonment as simple or rigorous or any part of sentence as simple or rigorous where offender is punishable with imprisonment which may be of either description.

Corresponding Section

Section 7 of the BNS, 2023 corresponds with Section 60 of the IPC, 1860.