Chapter VIII - RECIPROCAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR ASSISTANCE IN CERTAIN MATTERS AND PROCEDURE FOR ATTACHMENT AND FORFEITURE OF PROPERTY (From Section 111 to Section 124)
Stay of magistrate proceedings in complaint cases when parallel police investigation triggers joint trial or resumption. When a Magistrate conducting a complaint case learns of a concurrent police investigation relating to the same offence, the Magistrate shall stay the proceedings and call for the investigating officer's report. If the officer's report leads to cognizance against a person who is an accused in the complaint, the Magistrate shall try the complaint and the police-report case together as if both were instituted on a police report. If the report does not relate to any accused in the complaint or no cognizance is taken, the Magistrate shall resume and proceed with the stayed inquiry or trial.
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Stay of magistrate proceedings in complaint cases when parallel police investigation triggers joint trial or resumption.
When a Magistrate conducting a complaint case learns of a concurrent police investigation relating to the same offence, the Magistrate shall stay the proceedings and call for the investigating officer's report. If the officer's report leads to cognizance against a person who is an accused in the complaint, the Magistrate shall try the complaint and the police-report case together as if both were instituted on a police report. If the report does not relate to any accused in the complaint or no cognizance is taken, the Magistrate shall resume and proceed with the stayed inquiry or trial.
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