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1. "A person who has once been tried by a Court of competent jurisdiction for an offence and convicted or acquitted for that offence shall not, while such conviction or acquittal remains in force, be liable to be tried again for the same offence, nor on the same facts for any other offence for which a different charge might have been made against him under Sub-Section (1) of section 221, or for which he might have been convicted under Sub-Section (2) of that section.
2. A person acquitted or convicted of an offence may, with the consent of the State Government, be afterwards tried for any distinct offence for which a separate charge could have been made against him at the former trial under Sub-Section (1) of section 220.
3. A person convicted of an offence constituting an act causing consequences, which together with the act, constitute a different offence, may be afterwards tried for the last-mentioned offence, if the consequences had not occurred or were not known to the Court at the time of the original conviction.
4. A person acquitted or convicted of an offence constituted by certain acts may, notwithstanding such acquittal or conviction, be subsequently charged with and tried for any other offence arising from the same acts, if the Court by which he was first tried was not competent to try the offence for which he is subsequently charged.
5. A person discharged under section 258 shall not be tried again for the same offence, except with the consent of the Court by which he was discharged or any other Court to which the first Court is subordinate.
6. Nothing in this section shall affect the provisions of section 26 of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), or section 188 of this Code."