Section 7 in THE BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023 – BNS

Sentence may
be (in certain
cases of
imprisonment)
wholly or
partly rigorous or simple.

7. In every case in which an offender is punishable with imprisonment which may be
   of either description, it shall be competent to the Court which sentences such offender to
   direct in the sentence that such imprisonment shall be wholly rigorous, or that such
   imprisonment shall be wholly simple, or that any part of such imprisonment shall be rigorous
   and the rest simple.