VidhiSangh

Indian Penal Code, 1860

Section 74: Limit of solitary confinement

Repealed. Repealed from 1 July 2024. Use it for offences committed before repeal and other liabilities, investigations or proceedings preserved by BNS section 358; do not use it as the current general penal code.

Chapter III — Of Punishments

74. 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. Enhanced punishment for certain offence under Chapter XII or Chapter XVII after previous conviction.

Source: official text of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.