https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=193588 Section 428 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 was construed to include imprisonment for life, so pre-conviction detention as an undertrial must be set off against a life sentence. The Court held that the phrase "imprisonment for a term" covers life imprisonment because the term is the convict's life and the statute does not require a fixed or ascertainable period; the provision was read liberally in favour of set-off and the contrary view in Kartar Singh was disapproved. The operation of section 428 remains subject to section 433A and any order of remission or commutation under sections 432 and 433. en-us Tue, 16 Apr 1985 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 08 Aug 2017 15:51:54 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=193588 Section 428 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 was construed to include imprisonment for life, so pre-conviction detention as an undertrial must be set off against a life sentence. The Court held that the phrase "imprisonment for a term" covers life imprisonment because the term is the convict's life and the statute does not require a fixed or ascertainable period; the provision was read liberally in favour of set-off and the contrary view in Kartar Singh was disapproved. The operation of section 428 remains subject to section 433A and any order of remission or commutation under sections 432 and 433. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 16 Apr 1985 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=193588