Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
Section 7
In every case in which an offender is punishable with imprisonment which may be
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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. Amount of fine, liability in default of payment of fine, etc.