In every case in which an offender is punishable with imprisonment which may be of either description, it shall be competent to the Court which sentences such offender to direct in the sentence that such imprisonment shall be wholly rigorous, or that such imprisonment shall be wholly simple, or that any part of such imprisonment shall be rigorous and the rest simple.
Section 53 of Indian Penal Code - What are the punishments under IPC
Section 53A Construction of reference to transportation
Section 54 of Indian Penal Code - What is Commutation of Death Sentence?
Section 55A Definition of appropriate Government
Section 57 Fractions of terms of punishment
Section 60 Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous of simple