(1)Where anything which is an offence is made up of parts, any of which parts is itself an offence, the offender shall not be punished with the punishment of more than one of such his2008 offences, unless it be so expressly provided.
Section history
Section 71
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 71 — Original text to 2 January 2011superseded
(2)Where anything is an offence falling within two200822008 or more separate definitions of any law in force for the time being by which offences are defined or punished, or where several acts of which one or more than one would by itself or themselves constitute an offence constitute when combined a different offence2008offence,2008 the offender shall not be punished with a more severe punishment than the court which tries him could award for any one of such offences.
Illustrations
(a) A gives Z 50 strokes with a stick. Here A may have committed the offence of voluntarily causing hurt to Z by the whole beating, and also by each of the blows which make up the whole beating. If A were liable to punishment for every blow, he might be imprisoned for 50 years, one2008100 years, two2008 for each blow. But he is liable only to one punishment for the whole beating.
(b) But if, while A is beating Z, Y interferes and A intentionally strikes Y, here, as the blow given to Y is no part of the act whereby A voluntarily causes hurt to Z, A is liable to one punishment for voluntarily causing hurt to Z, and to another for the blow given to Y.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 71]
There are no sections 542008552008·2008 to 56 and 200858 to 70.
Section 71 — From 2 January 2011 (current)repealed by Criminal Procedure Code 2010
[Repealed by Act 15/2010 wef 02/01/2011]
There are no sections 58 to 70.