Pakistan Penal Code, 1860 — Section 73: Solitary confinement

73. Solitary confinement. 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 1

(b)[* * * * * * *] shall be guilty of any offence punishable under either of those Chapters with like imprisonment for the like term, shall be subject for every such subsequent offence to 2 [imprisonment for life], or to imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years.] CHAPTER IV GENERAL EXCEPTIONS 76. Act done by a person bound, or by mistake of fact believing him-self bound, by law. Nothing is an offence which is done by a person who is, or who by reason of a mistake of fact and not by reason of a mistake of law in good faith believes himself to be, bound by law to do it. Illustrations

(a)A, a soldier, fires on a mob by the order of his superior officer, in conformity with the commands of the law. A has committed no offence.

(b)A, an officer of a Court of Justice, being ordered by that Court to arrest Y, and, after due enquiry, believing Z to be Y, arrests Z. A has committed no offence.