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Which of the following statements according to the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 is/are correct ? 1. In…

The appropriate Government can commute a sentence without the offender’s consent under section 5. Section 12, however, limits any uninterrupted spell of solitary confinement…

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Which of the following statements according to the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 is/are correct ?
1. In order to commute a sentence, the appropriate government has to necessarily take the consent of the offender
2. The punishment of solitary confinement should not exceed 14 days at a time Select the answer using the code given below :

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The appropriate Government can commute a sentence without the offender’s consent under section 5. Section 12, however, limits any uninterrupted spell of solitary confinement to fourteen days, with intervening intervals. For imprisonment exceeding three months, it also imposes the stricter limit of seven days of solitary confinement in any one month.

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