CrPC 227BNSS 250

What changed

• New subsection (1) provides that the accused may prefer an application for discharge within a period of sixty days from the date of commencement of the case under Section 232.

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Under Section 250 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Section 227 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973)...

Bare act text — BNSS 250

250. Discharge.—(1) The accused may prefer an application for discharge within a period of sixty days from the date of commitment of the case under section 232. (2) If, upon consideration of the record of the c ase and the documents submitted therewith, and after hearing the submissions of the accused and the prosecution in this behalf, the Judge considers that there is not sufficient ground for proceeding against the accused, he shall discharge the accused and r ecord his reasons for so doing.