BNSS Section 247 — Withdrawal of remaining charges on conviction on one of several charges

Summary

If a person is charged with multiple offences in the same case and is found guilty of one or more of them, the person who filed the complaint or the prosecutor can ask the court for permission to drop the remaining charges. The court can also decide on its own to stop the trial for those remaining charges. Dropping the charges in this way counts as an acquittal for those charges, meaning the person is considered not guilty of them. However, if the conviction is later overturned by a higher court, the trial for the dropped charges can be restarted, unless the higher court orders otherwise.

Official Text

When a charge containing more heads than one is framed against the same person, and when a conviction has been had on one or more of them, the complainant, or the officer conducting the prosecution, may, with the consent of the Court, withdraw the remaining charge or charges, or the Court of its own accord may stay the inquiry into, or trial of, such charge or charges and such withdrawal shall have the effect of an acquittal on such charge or charges, unless the conviction be set aside, in which case the said Court (subject to the order of the Court setting aside the conviction) may proceed with the inquiry into, or trial of, the charge or charges so withdrawn.

Related Judgments

• SC (2025) Vol.5 p.730 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• SC (2025) Vol.6 p.545 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• SC (2024) Vol.7 p.979 — Supreme Court of India (2024)
• SC (2025) Vol.2 p.1588 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• .. Petitioner/Accused No.12 vs The State of Tamilnadu, — Madras High Court ()
• SC (2025) Vol.1 p.1469 — Supreme Court of India (2025)
• SC (2024) Vol.12 p.335 — Supreme Court of India (2024)
• SC (2025) Vol.11 p.291 — Supreme Court of India (2025)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• CrPC §224 — Withdrawal of remaining charges on conviction on one of several charges