Section 12 Earlier IPC 74
Limit of solitary confinement
Chapter 2: Of punishments
In executing a sentence of solitary confinement, such confinement shall in no case exceed fourteen days at a time, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of not less duration than such periods; and when the imprisonment awarded shall exceed three months, the solitary confinement shall not exceed seven days in any one month of the whole imprisonment awarded, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of not less duration than such periods.
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 45 of 2023). As printed in the Gazette on 25 December 2023. Later amendments, if any, are not included.
Related sections
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- 8Amount of fine, liability in default of payment of fine, etcIPC 63, 64
- 9Limit of punishment of offence made up of several offencesIPC 71
- 10Punishment of person guilty of one of several offences, judgment stating that it is doubtful of whichIPC 72
- 11Solitary confinementIPC 73
- 13Enhanced punishment for certain offences after previous convictionIPC 75