Legal Provisions of Section 74 of Indian Penal Code, 1860.
Limit of solitary confinement:
This provision follows the principle that solitary confinement should be imposed only in intervals since it produces a direct impact on the mind of the person undergoing it. Such confinement shall never be for more than fourteen days at a stretch. The interval between the period of solitary confinement must not be less than such periods of such confinements.
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In case of imprisonment of more than three months, solitary confinement shall not be for more than seven days in any one month of the total imprisonment awarded. Here also the intervals between the periods of such confinement must not be less than such periods.