CrPC Section 258 is now BNSS Section 281
- CrPC 258 (Power to stop proceedings in certain cases) → BNSS 281 Power to stop proceedings in certain cases
Verbatim · BNSS 281281. Power to stop proceedings in certain cases.—In any summons-case instituted otherwise than upon complaint, a Magistrate of the first class or, with the previous sanction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, any other Judicial Magistrate, may, for reasons to be recorded by him, stop the proceedings at any stage without pronouncing any judgment and where such stoppage of proceedings is made after the evidence of the principal witnesses has been recorded, pronounce a judgment of acquittal, and in any other case, release the accused, and such release shall have the effect of discharge.
Read the full BNSS Section 281 →
The BNSS replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 from 1 July 2024.
Old-to-new correspondence is indicative and not always one-to-one; read the new text itself.