Solitary confinement
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Summary
If a person is convicted of an offence for which the court can impose rigorous imprisonment, the court may order that the offender be kept in solitary confinement for portions of the term, subject to a total limit of three months. The allowable period depends on the sentence: up to one month if the term is six months or less; up to two months if over six months but not more than one year; up to three months if over one year. Solitary confinement may be ordered in one or more parts within those limits.
Example
Ravi is convicted and sentenced to eight months' rigorous imprisonment for theft. Under this rule the court may order up to two months of solitary confinement during his sentence, so the court can include two months' solitary as part of his imprisonment.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhenever 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:
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(a) a time not exceeding one month if the term of imprisonment shall not exceed six months;
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(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.
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