Section 428 in The Code Of Criminal Procedure, 1973
Section 428 of CRPC “Period of detention undergone by the accuser to be set off against the 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.