Section 142
Commencement of sentence of imprisonment.
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the governance of the Assam Rifles, an Armed Force of the Union for ensuring the security of the borders of India, to carry out Counter Insurgency Operations in the specified areas and to act in aid of civil authorities for the maintenance of the law and order and for matters connected therewith.
Whenever any person is sentenced by an
Assam Rifles Court under this Act to imprisonment, the term of his sentence shall, whether it has been
revised or not, be reckoned to commence on the day in which the original proceedings were signed by the
presiding officer, or in the case of a Summary Assam Rifles Court, by the Court:
Provided that when a person subject to this Act is sentenced by an Assam Rifles Court to a term of imprisonment, not being an imprisonment in default of payment of fine, the period spent by him in civil or Force custody during investigation, inquiry or trial of the same case, and before the date of order, such sentence shall be set off against the term of imprisonment imposed upon him and the liability of such person or officer to undergo imprisonment on such order of sentence shall be restricted to the remainder, if any, of the term of imprisonment imposed upon him.
Provided that when a person subject to this Act is sentenced by an Assam Rifles Court to a term of imprisonment, not being an imprisonment in default of payment of fine, the period spent by him in civil or Force custody during investigation, inquiry or trial of the same case, and before the date of order, such sentence shall be set off against the term of imprisonment imposed upon him and the liability of such person or officer to undergo imprisonment on such order of sentence shall be restricted to the remainder, if any, of the term of imprisonment imposed upon him.