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Section 239 - Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
239.When accused shall be discharged.-
If, upon considering the police report and the documents sent with it under section 173 and making such examination, if any, of the accused as the Magistrate thinks necessary and after giving the prosecution and the accused an opportunity of being heard, the Magistrate considers the charge against the accused to be groundless, he shall discharge the accused, and record his reasons for so doing.
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- Section 200: Examination of complainant
- Section 324: Trial of persons previously convicted of offences against coinage, stamp-law or property
- Section 470: Exclusion of time in certain cases
- Section 105: Reciprocal arrangements regarding processes
- Section 361: Special reasons to be recorded in certain cases.- Where in any case the Court could have dealt with
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