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Under section 6 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, in calculating fractions of terms of punishment,…

Section 6 BNS reckons life imprisonment as twenty years when calculating fractions of terms of punishment, unless otherwise provided. This computation rule does not convert…

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Under section 6 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, in calculating fractions of terms of punishment, imprisonment for life is reckoned, unless otherwise provided, as equivalent to imprisonment for how many years?

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Section 6 BNS reckons life imprisonment as twenty years when calculating fractions of terms of punishment, unless otherwise provided. This computation rule does not convert every life sentence into a fixed twenty-year sentence.

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Option A

Twenty years is the fraction-computation equivalence, unless otherwise provided.

Option B

Fourteen is not the section 6 equivalence.

Option C

Sixteen is not the section 6 equivalence.

Option D

Twelve is not the section 6 equivalence.

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