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CHAPTER III OF PUNISHMENTS

Section 74: Limit of solitary confinement

The Indian Penal Code, 1860 (repealed)

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

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.

Now in the BNS

As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

74. Limit of solitary confinement.BNS 12

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  1. 1. Under Section 12 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, when the imprisonment awarded exceeds three months, solitary confinement in executing the sentence shall not exceed:

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