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