§245 — When accused shall be discharged

State amendments

This section has been amended in its application to West Bengal. The text above is the central provision and is what applies everywhere else — these amendments are law only in the State that made them.

• West Bengal[Vide West Bengal Act 24 of 1988, s. 5.]Read →Hide

  West Bengal In section 245 of the principal Act, after sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be inserted: — “(3) If all the evidence referred to in section 244 are not produced in support of the prosecution within four years from the date of appearance of the accused, the Magistrate shall discharge the accused unless the prosecution satisfies the Magistrate that upon the evidence already produced and for special reasons there is ground for presuming that it shall not be in the interest of justice to discharge the accused.”.

Reproduced from the same official PDF as the section above, as the amending Act words it — not a consolidated State version of the section. Check the source before relying on it.