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Under the general rule in section 6 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, how is life imprisonment…

Section 6 assigns a twenty-year value for calculating fractions of terms of punishment, unless otherwise provided. This limited calculation rule does not determine the…

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Under the general rule in section 6 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, how is life imprisonment reckoned when calculating fractions of terms of punishment?

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Section 6 assigns a twenty-year value for calculating fractions of terms of punishment, unless otherwise provided. This limited calculation rule does not determine the duration of a life sentence.

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Option A

Section 6 uses twenty years for the fractional calculation unless otherwise provided.

Option B

Fourteen years is not the conversion period prescribed by section 6.

Option C

Section 6 does not set the calculation base at thirty years.

Option D

Section 6 does not set the calculation base at twenty-eight years.

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