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Which provision of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 generally reckons imprisonment for life as twenty…

Section 6 uses a twenty-year reckoning to calculate fractions of terms of punishment, unless otherwise provided. It does not establish a general release date for a life…

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Which provision of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 generally reckons imprisonment for life as twenty years when calculating fractions of terms of punishment?

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Section 6 uses a twenty-year reckoning to calculate fractions of terms of punishment, unless otherwise provided. It does not establish a general release date for a life sentence.

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Option A

Section 4 lists punishments.

Option B

Section 5 concerns commutation of a sentence.

Option C

Section 7 addresses wholly or partly rigorous or simple imprisonment.

Option D

Section 6 supplies the twenty-year reckoning for fractions, unless otherwise provided.

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