Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
BNSS Section 468
Period of detention undergone by accused to be set off against sentence of imprisonment
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BNSS Section 468 deals with period of detention undergone by accused to be set off against sentence of imprisonment and replaces CrPC 428.
Bare act text — BNSS 468
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.
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What was BNSS Section 468 in the CrPC?
BNSS Section 468 (Period of detention undergone by accused to be set off against sentence of imprisonment) replaces Section 428 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. CrPC 428 is now BNSS 468.
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Nearby BNSS sections
- BNSS 463 — Warrant for levy of fine issued by a Court in any territory to which this Sanhita does not extend
- BNSS 464 — Suspension of execution of sentence of imprisonment
- BNSS 465 — Who may issue warrant
- BNSS 466 — Sentence on escaped convict when to take effect
- BNSS 467 — Sentence on offender already sentenced for another offence
- BNSS 469 — Saving
- BNSS 470 — Return of warrant on execution of sentence
- BNSS 471 — Money ordered to be paid recoverable as a fine
- BNSS 472 — Mercy petition in death sentence cases
- BNSS 473 — Power to suspend or remit sentences