Section 12 in THE BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023 – BNS

Limit of Solitary Confinement

  1. In executing a sentence of solitary confinement, such confinement shall in no case
    exceed fourteen days at a time, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of
    not less duration than such periods; and when the imprisonment awarded shall exceed three
    months, the solitary confinement shall not exceed seven days in any one month of the whole
    imprisonment awarded, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of not
    less duration than such periods.