Under Section 11 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the maximum total period of solitary confinement…

Under Section 11 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Section 73 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860), whenever any person is convicted of an offence for which under the 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 (one month if the term of imprisonment does not exceed six months, two months if it exceeds six months and does not exceed one year, and three months if it exceeds one year). Under Section 12 (formerly Section 74 IPC), solitary confinement shall in no case exceed fourteen days at a time.