Text of PPC Section 73

Section 73. Solitary confinement

Whenever any person is convicted of an offence for which, under this Code, the Court has the 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 total, according to the following scale:

• A time not exceeding one month, if the term of imprisonment does not exceed six months;
• A time not exceeding two months, if the term of imprisonment exceeds six months but does not exceed one year;
• A time not exceeding three months, if the term of imprisonment exceeds one year.