Of Punishments
IPC Section 74 - Limit of solitary confinement
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IPC Section 74 deals with limit of solitary confinement.
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74. Limit of solitary confinement. 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 mo nth of the whole
imprisonment awarded, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement of not less duration
than such periods.
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