Section 144, The Criminal Procedure Act, 2024

(1) A defendant may, at any time before sentence, whetheron his plea of guilty or otherwise, move a motion in arrest of Judgment on the ground that the indictment does not, after an amendment which the Court has made and had power to make, state an offence which the Court has power to try. (2) The Court may either hear and determine the motion for arrest of Judgment during the same sitting or adjourn the hearing to a future time to be fixed for that purpose. (3) Where the Court decides in favour of the defendant, the defendant shall be discharged from the indictment, but the discharge shall not operate as a bar to any subsequent proceedings against him on the same facts.