IPC Section 60 — Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple

Summary

When a law allows a judge to sentence someone to either rigorous imprisonment (with hard labour) or simple imprisonment (without hard labour), the judge has the power to decide in the sentencing order whether the entire term will be rigorous, the entire term will be simple, or part of the term will be rigorous and the rest simple.

Official Text

In every case in which an offender is punishable with imprisonment which may be of either description, it shall be competent to the Court which sentences such offender to direct in the sentence that such imprisonment shall be wholly rigorous, or that such imprisonment shall be wholly simple or that any part of such imprisonment shall be rigorous and the rest simple.

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNS §7 — Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple