CrPC 249 — Absence of complainant

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Statutory text

When  the  proceedings  have  been  instituted  upon  complaint,  and  on  any  day
fixed for the hearing of the case, the complainant is absent, and the offence may be lawfully compounded or is not a
cognizable  offence,  the  Magistrate  may,  in  his  discretion,  notwithstanding  anything  hereinbefore  contained,  at  any time before the charge has been framed, discharge the accused.

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