Section 121A
Period of custody undergone by a person to be set-off against the imprisonment.
The Border Security Force Act, 1968
About this Act
An Act to provide for the constitution and regulation of an Armed Force of the Union for ensuring the security of the borders of India and for matters connected therewith.
1[121A. Period of custody undergone by a person to be set off against the
imprisonment.-- When any person subject to this Act is sentenced by a Security Force Court to a term of
imprisonment, not being an imprisonment in default of payment of fine, the period spend by him in civil
or Force custody during investigation, inquiry or trial of the same case, and before the date of order of
such sentence, shall be set off against the term of imprisonment imposed upon him, and the liability of
such person to undergo imprisonment on such order of sentence shall be restricted to the remainder, if
any, of the term of imprisonment imposed upon him.]
Notes
1. Ins. by Act 35 of 2000, s. 2 (w.e.f. 1-9-2000)