The Madras High Court, while discussing the power of the court to discharge the accused, observed that the word at any previous stage used in the said provision refers to the stage from when the Magistrate has taken cognisance of the case. Observing thus, the Bench of Justice Bharatha Chakravarthy set aside the discharge order
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