CrPC § 428 · Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 · Repealed on 1 July 2024
Section 428 CrPC — Period of detention undergone by the accused to be set off against the sentence of imprisonment
Replaced from 1 July 2024 by BNSS 468 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. Offences committed on or before 30 June 2024 are still charged under the CrPC.
The law now: BNSS 468 — Period of detention undergone by accused to be set off against sentence of imprisonment
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 475, such period of detention shall be set off against the period of fourteen years referred to in that section.
Source: India Code (indiacode.gov.in). The Gazette of India is the authoritative text. BNSS 468 in full