Solitary confinement
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Summary
Where a person is sentenced to rigorous imprisonment, the court may order that part or parts of that term be served in solitary confinement, according to a fixed scale: up to one month if the total term is six months or less; up to two months if it exceeds six months but does not exceed one year; up to three months if it exceeds one year. Total solitary confinement cannot exceed three months.
Example
Priya is convicted and sentenced to eight months of rigorous imprisonment for taking stock without permission from her shop. The court may order that up to two months of her sentence be served in solitary confinement, because the total term exceeds six months but does not exceed one year.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhenever any person is convicted of an offence for which under this Code 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, that is to say -
(1) a time not exceeding one month if the term of imprisonment shall not exceed six months;
(2) a time not exceeding two months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed six months and shall not exceed one year;
(3) a time not exceeding three months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed one year.
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