SECTION 428 CrPC - Code of Criminal Procedure - Period of detention undergone by the accused to be set off against the sentence of imprisonment

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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.

Comments

(i) Benefit of set off under section 428 is not available to life convicts; Kartar Singh v. State of Haryana, AIR 1982 SC 1433.

(ii) The period of detention referred to in section 428 is of the accused person during the investigation; Ram Sarup v. Union of India, 1988 Cr LJ 417: AIR 1988 SC 283.

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