Section 73 in The Jammu and Kashmir State Ranbir Penal Code, 1989
73. Solitary confinement.
- Whenever any person is convicted 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 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.
