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HTML

<input id="check stage<lead>" type="checkbox" title="Select/Unselect Column" name="chk-stage-column-select" value="" onchange="">

JavaScript

// escape jquery selectors
    function jQueryEscape(str) {
        if (str)
            return str.replace(/([ #;?%&,.+*<>~\':"!^$[\]()=>|\/@])/g, '\\$1');

        return str;
    }
    
    
      var StageName = "<lead>";
      
  document.getElementById("check stage"+StageName).checked = true;
  
  /*
   In case you want jquery selector, just select the element using javascript and then convert it to jquery selector
	var y = $(document.getElementById("check stage"+StageName));
  y.prop("checked",true);
  
  */