The following persons may be charged and tried together, namely:\u2014
(a) persons accused of the same offence committed in the course of the same
transaction;
(b) persons accused of an offence and persons accused of abetment of, or
attempt to commit, such offence;
(c) persons accused of more than one offence of the same kind, within the
meaning of section 242 committed by them jointly within the period of twelve months;
(d) persons accused of different offences committed in the course of the same
transaction;
(e) persons accused of an offence which includes theft, extortion, cheating, or
criminal misappropriation, and persons accused of receiving or retaining, or assisting
in the disposal or concealment of, property possession of which is alleged to have
been transferred by any such offence committed by the first-named persons, or of
abetment of or attempting to commit any such last-named offence;
(f) persons accused of offences under section 315 of the Bharatiya Nyaya
Sanhita, 2023 or either of those sections in respect of stolen property the possession
of which has been transferred by one offence;
(g) persons accused of any offence under Chapter XII of the Bharatiya Nyaya
Sanhita, 2023 relating to counterfeit coin and persons accused of any other offence
under the said Chapter relating to the same coin, or of abetment of or attempting to
commit any such offence; and the provisions contained in the former part of this
Chapter shall, so far as may be, apply to all such charges:
Provided that where a number of persons are charged with separate offences and
such persons do not fall within any of the categories specified in this section, the Magistrate
or Court of Session may, if such persons by an application in writing, so desire, and if he or
it is satisfied that such persons would not be prejudicially affected thereby, and it is expedient
so to do, try all such persons together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The following persons may be charged and tried together, namely:\u2014(a) persons accused of the same offence committed in the course of the sametransaction;(b) persons accused of an offence and persons accused of abetment of, orattempt to commit, such offence;(c) persons accused of more than one offence of the same kind, within themeaning of section 242 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[125,124,134,132,130,136,137,126,127,123,129,128,133,111,135,112,121,122,113,114,131],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-bharatiya-nagarik-suraksha-sanhita-bnss","tag-bharatiya-nagarik-suraksha-sanhita-2023","tag-bhartiya-nagrik-suraksha-sanhita","tag-bnss-2024-india","tag-bnss-all-sections","tag-bnss-bare-act","tag-bnss-chapter-wise-sections","tag-bnss-fir-section","tag-bnss-full-form","tag-bnss-pdf-download","tag-bnss-sections-in-hindi","tag-bnss-sections-list","tag-bnss-vs-crpc","tag-crpc-replaced-by-bnss","tag-expert-vakil","tag-expert-vakil-bnss","tag-expertvakil","tag-indian-kanoon","tag-indiankanoon","tag-ishan-tathagat","tag-ishantathagat","tag-new-criminal-law-india"],"yoast_head":"\n