Section 60 Indian Penal Code

Section 60 of the Indian Penal Code 1860 is about Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous of simple. It is under CHAPTER III (OF PUNISHMENTS) of the Code.

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

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.