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Penal Code, 1860 (Act No. XLV of 1860).
Where several acts, of which one or more than one would by itself or themselves
constitute an offence, constitute, when combined, a different offence,
the offender shall not be punished with a more severe punishment than the Court
which tries him could award for any one of such offences.
Illustrations
(a) A gives Z fifty strokes with a stick. Here A may have committed the offence
of voluntarily causing hurt to Z by the whole beating, and also by each of the
blows which make up the whole beating. If A were liable to punishment for every
blow, he might be imprisoned for fifty years, one for each blow. But he is liable
only to one punishment for the whole beating.
(b) But if, while A is beating Z, Y interferes, and A intentionally strikes Y, here,
as the blow given to Y is no part of the act whereby A voluntarily causes hurt to
Z, A is liable to one punishment for voluntarily causing hurt to Z, and to another
for the blow given to Y.
Punishment of person
guilty of one of
several offences, the
judgment stating that
it is doubtful of which
72. In all cases in which judgment is given that a person is guilty of one of
several offences specified in the judgment, but that it is doubtful of which these
offences he is guilty, the offender shall be punished for the offence for which the
lowest punishment is provided if the same punishment is not provided for all.
Solitary confinement
73. Whenever any person is convicted of an offence for which under this Code
the Court has power to sentence him to rigorous imprisonment, the Court may,
by its sentence, order that the offender shall be kept in solitary confinement for
any portion or portions of the imprisonment to which he is sentenced, not
exceeding three months in the whole, according to the following scale, that is to
say
a time not exceeding one month if the term of imprisonment shall not exceed
six months:
a time not exceeding two months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed six
months and shall not exceed one year:
a time not exceeding three months if the term of imprisonment shall exceed one
year.
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.
Limit of solitary
confinement
Enhanced punishment
75. Whoever, having been convicted,
(a) by a Court in Bangladesh of an offence punishable under Chapter XII or
Chapter XVII of this Code with imprisonment of either description for a term of
for certain offences
under Chapter XII or
Chapter XVII after
previous conviction
three years or upwards; 31[ * * *]
(b) [Omitted by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision
And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).]
shall be guilty of any offence punishable under either of those Chapters with like
imprisonment for the like term, shall be
subject for every such subsequent offence to 32[ imprisonment] for life, or to
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years.
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