BNS · Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
Section 13 — Enhanced punishment for certain offences after previous conviction.
Replaces IPC Section 75.
Whoever, having been convicted by a Court in India, of an offence punishable under Chapter X or Chapter XVII of this Sanhita with imprisonment of either description for a term of three years or upwards, 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 imprisonment for life, or to imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years.
Nearby sections
- 10 Punishment of person guilty of one of several offences, judgment stating that it is doubtful of which.
- 11 Solitary confinement.
- 12 Limit of solitary confinement.
- 14 Act done by a person bound, or by mistake of fact believing himself bound, by law.
- 15 Act of Judge when acting judicially.
- 16 Act done pursuant to judgment or order of Court.
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