Dex of Authorities List of Statutes
Dex of Authorities List of Statutes
Dex of Authorities List of Statutes
List of statutes:
Table of cases:
List of abbreviations:
Chapter I
1.1. Introduction:
One of the fruitful things that is given by Britain to India, during her reign was the laws of the
British legal system especially the concept of criminal justice system and its related legislations.
Our Indian Penal Code, Evidence Act and Civil Procedure Code are the products of the British
legislators, which underwent only minor changes even after the independence till now. Likewise,
the Criminal Procedure Code was also introduced by the British, laid a concrete foundation for
the present Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, which deals with the procedure to be followed by
various courts in any criminal proceedings. In addition to it, the Act also impo. This paper
focuses on the chapter 19- ‘Trial of warrant cases by the Magistrates’, which forms a crucial
part of the Act.
The scope of the project is limited to the study on warrant cases amd its trial proceedings. And
consequentially, the paper also explains briefly about other types of trials, to classify and
distinguish the trial of warrant cases from others and also to classify the in-built provisions.
In addition to these points, when a warrant case is tried as summons case, the acquittal will only
amount to discharge and if the converse happens, the discharge of accused will be considered as
acquittal. If the mistake of trying a summons case is found at any stage in the trial, the warrant
procedures can still be followed2. The conversion of a summons case to warrants case can be
done if the punishment for the offence would be more than 6 months and in the interest of
justice, the Magistrate feels so, as under s.259 but not vice versa i.e, a warrants case cannot be
converted into summons.
Let us now proceed to briefly understand the different procedures established for the trial of
warrant cases under CrPC.
1
State of Kerala v. Chippan Appu, 1959 Ker LJ 1379; In such cases, conviction if made will be set aside and an
order of acquittal will be merely treated as discharge. See also, Singhal M.L., Sohoni’s Code of Criminal Procedure,
(21st Edition, 2015) vol.3, Lexis Nexis, Haryana at p.1082.
2
In Re Appavu Padayachi, 16 Cr LJ 250.
Chapter III
This provision reiterates the principles under s.251-A of the repealed code with certain
favourable changes like the right of the accused to get copies of the documents and to know
about the evidence against him. It is primarily the right of the person to lodge information to
police or to make a complaint to magistrates3. The word police report would mean all types of
reports submitted by a police officer
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discovered that police investigation is in process relating to that case, a report of investigation
will be called for and based on that, the procedure to be adopted will be finalised 5. And under
this category, there will be four major stages of trial to be followed.
There are certain initial steps to be taken before the commencement of the trial so as to ensure a
planned and smooth procedure.
S. 238 mandates that the when an accused appears or is brought before a Magistrate, under this
category, the compliance of s.207 is mandatory. Accordingly, the Magistrate has to ensure that
the accused gets the copies of all the documents detailed in clauses (i) to (v) of that section. It
serves as a condition precedent to the commencement of the trial which means ‘before the
charges are framed’6. The accused in fact, has a right to know about the case initiated against him
and the details of the evidences.
3
Mahabir Prasad v. State, AIR 1958 Orissa 11 at p.15.
4
Parvin Chandra Mody v. State of Andra Pradesh, AIR 1965 SC 1185.
5
S.210 of CrPC.
6
Pillai K.N.Chandrasekharan, R.V.Kelkar’s Lctures on Criminal Procedure, 544(6th Edition,2014), Eastern Book
Company, Lucknow.
Option to discharge him:
After considering the police report and documents under s.173 i.e, charge sheet, and also after
giving the prosecution and the accused, an opportunity of being heard, if the Magistrate thinks
that the allegations agai
Chapter I
1.2. Introduction:
One of the fruitful things that is given by Britain to India, during her reign was the laws of the
British legal system especially the concept of criminal justice system and its related legislations.
Our Indian Penal Code, Evidence Act and Civil Procedure Code are the products of the British
legislators, which underwent only minor changes even after the independence till now. Likewise,
the Criminal Procedure Code was also introduced by the British, laid a concrete foundation for
the present Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, which deals with the procedure to be followed by
various courts in any criminal proceedings. In addition to it, the Act also impo. This paper
focuses on the chapter 19- ‘Trial of warrant cases by the Magistrates’, which forms a crucial
part of the Act.
The scope of the project is limited to the study on warrant cases amd its trial proceedings. And
consequentially, the paper also explains briefly about other types of trials, to classify and
distinguish the trial of warrant cases from others and also to classify the in-built provisions.