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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 106: Security for keeping the peace on conviction
- Section 89: Arrest on breach of bond for appearance
- Section 386: Powers of the Appellate Court
- Section 131: Power of certain armed force officers to disperse assembly
- Section 12: Chief Judicial Magistrate and Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, etc
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