IPC Section 73 — Solitary confinement
punishments
General
Summary
If a court sentences someone to rigorous imprisonment for an offence, the court may also order that person to be kept in solitary confinement for part of that sentence. The total solitary confinement cannot be more than three months. The maximum time allowed depends on the total prison term: up to one month if the sentence is six months or less, up to two months if the sentence is more than six months but not more than one year, and up to three months if the sentence is more than one year.
Official Text
Whenever 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:
a time not exceeding one month if the term of imprisonment shall not exceed six months;
a time not exceeding two months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed six months and shall not exceed one year;
a time not exceeding three months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed one year.
Related Judgments
- S.C.R. 609 SHATRUGHAN CHAUHAN & ANR v. UNION OF INDIA & ORS — Supreme Court of India (2014)
- SUNIL BATRA v. DELHI ADMN — Supreme Court of India (1979)
- HARBANS SINGH AND ANOTHER v. STATE OF PUNJAB — Supreme Court of India (S)
- .. Appellant vs 1.The Additional Director General of Police & — Madras High Court (2017)
- S.C.R. 199 PRAMOD BHANUDAS SOUNDANKAR v. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA — Supreme Court of India (2012)
- AND ANR v. UNION OF INDIA AND ORS — Supreme Court of India (2017)
- HCP/393/2018 — Madras High Court (2018)
- HCP/392/2018 — Madras High Court (2018)
Old <-> New Code Mapping
- BNS §11 — Solitary confinement