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 BNS: Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple
- Corresponding IPC
- Section 60 IPC
Bare Act text
Text as enacted in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 45 of 2023), in force from 1 July 2024. Source: India Code, Government of India.
In simple words
Where imprisonment may be of either description, the Court may direct it to be wholly rigorous, wholly simple, or partly rigorous and partly simple.
Chapter II: Of Punishments
- 4 Punishments
- 5 Commutation of sentence
- 6 Fractions of terms of punishment
- 7 Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple
- 8 Amount of fine, liability in default of payment of fine, etc
- 9 Limit of punishment of offence made up of several offences
- 10 Punishment of person guilty of one of several offences, judgment stating that it is doubtful of which
- 11 Solitary confinement
- 12 Limit of solitary confinement
- 13 Enhanced punishment for certain offences after previous conviction