CrPC 428 — Period of detention undergone by the accused to be set off against the sentence of imprisonment

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Statutory text

Where an accused person has, on conviction, been sentenced to imprisonment for a term,

[, not being imprisonment
in default of payment of fine], the period of detention, if any, undergone by him during the  investigation, inquiry or
trial  of  the  same  case  and  before  the  date  of  such  conviction,  shall  be  set  off  against  the  term  of  imprisonment
imposed  on  him  on  such  conviction,  and  the  liability  of  such  person  to  undergo  imprisonment  on  such  conviction
shall be restricted to the remainder, if any, of the term of imprisonment imposed on him:

[Provided that in cases referred to in section 433A, such period of detention shall be set off against the period of fourteen years referred to in that section.]

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