CHAPTER-26 Judicial Solitary Confinement Amount of solitary confinement ordered on a warrant. Rule 638. (i) The maximum periods of confinement which a Court is empowered to inflict are— (a) one month, if the term of imprisonment does not exceed six months; (b) two months, if the term of imprisonment does not exceed six months, but does not exceed one year; and (c) three months, if the term exceeds one year. (ii) If the period of solitary confinement ordered is stated in months, a month shall be counted as four weeks. Explanation. Solitary confinement means such confinement with or without labour as entirely secludes the prisoner both from sight of, and communication with, other prisoners. Sections 73 and 74 of Pakistan Penal Code. 73. Solitary confinement. Where 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 one month if the term of imprisonment shall exceed six months and shall not exceed one year; a time not exceeding one month if the term of imprisonment shall exceed one year. 74. Limit of solitary confinement. In executing a sentence of solitary confinement, such confinement shall in no case exceed fourteen days at a time, with intervals between the period of solitary confinement of not less duration than such periods, and when the imprisonment awarded shall exceed three months, the solitary confinement shall not exceed seven 219