BNS Section 7

Section 7 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) deals with the nature of imprisonment when a court has the discretion to impose either rigorous imprisonment or simple imprisonment, or a combination of both.
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.

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