CrPC § 258 · Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 · Repealed on 1 July 2024
Section 258 CrPC — Power to stop proceedings in certain cases
Replaced from 1 July 2024 by BNSS 281 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. Offences committed on or before 30 June 2024 are still charged under the CrPC.
The law now: BNSS 281 — 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.
Source: India Code (indiacode.gov.in). The Gazette of India is the authoritative text. BNSS 281 in full