Solitary confinement

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Whenever any person is convicted of an offence for which under this Sanhita the Court has power to sentence him to rigorous imprisonment, the Court may, by its sentence, order that the offender shall be kept in solitary confinement for any portion or portions of the imprisonment to which he is sentenced, not exceeding three months in the whole, according to the following scale, namely:—

(a) a time not exceeding one month if the term of imprisonment shall not exceed six months;

(b) a time not exceeding two months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed six months and shall not exceed one year;

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(c) a time not exceeding three months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed one year.

Section 10 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 

Section 12 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

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