The IPC 1860 was replaced by the BNS 2023 (in force 2024-07-01); no verified section mapping on file for Section 73 — confirm the corresponding provision (savings: Section 358, BNS 2023).
Whenever any person is convicted of 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 be 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.