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.

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