Section 11 BNS: Solitary Confinement

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Section 11 BNS | BNS 11

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;

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

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Section No.	Section Title
4	Punishments.
5	Commutation of sentence.
6	Fractions of terms of punishment.
7	Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple.
8	Amount of fine, liability in default of payment of fine, etc.
9	Limit of punishment of offence made up of several offences.
10	Punishment of person guilty of one of several offences, judgment stating that it is doubtful of which.
11	Solitary confinement.
12	Limit of solitary confinement.
13	Enhanced punishment for certain offences after previous conviction.