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Srinivas.B.S.S.T ( Advocate) 08 June 2008
as per section 207 of Cr.P.C copies of all the documents filed to prove the guilt of accused, shall be supplied to the accused. If the Police filed the chargesheet and you have not received your copy from the court you can file a memo into the court so as to supply the chargesheet. But remember only after the charge sheet is taken on file, it will be supplied to you. At this juncture i would like to tell you the steps/procedure courts follow (its allmost all same in all the states of India)
1. After police arrest an accused and produced him before the court, the court will commit him to judicial remand. (The remand period will be a span of 15 days)
2. Upon moving a bail petition the judge will pass appropriate orders on the same(if the bail petition is dismissed in teh 1st instance, a petition can be filed after a considerable gap before the same magistrate or a petition can be filed in a court higher to its jurisdiction, but filing a petition before the same magistrate you should show some change in circumstances)
3. After granting bail, accepting sureties the accused will be released from prision and he should appear before the court on the date(generally the remand date )
4. Upon appearing before teh court on remand date the court will direct the accused that he will receive summons after filing the chargesheet
5. After police file the chargesheet and court takes it on file, the court will issue summons to the accused.
6. When the accused after recipt of summons appears before the court. All the copies of documents, 161 Cr.P.C. Statements shall be supplied to the accused.
7. After supplying the copies the court will conduct preliminary examination and proceed with the trial by issuing summons to the witnesses.
8. After completion of the trial the accused will again examined under section 313 Cr.P.C
9. After 313 Cr.P.C the accused can adduce defence evidence. He may examine himself as a witness or exmine others as witnesses in support of his case.
10. after defence evidence the matter will be posted for arguments
11. after hearing arguments on both sides the court will pronounce its judgment. from here the appeal stage start. I hope i have cleared your doubt with regrad to procedure. any further doubts please post a message.
Remember if you want to file a discharge petition before the magistrate you have to file it after receiving the copies and before preliminary examination
Legal Techie (Men's Rights Activist) 08 June 2008
Wow,
Thanks a lot Mr. Srinivas for such a detailed description!
Now regarding the procedure I've got some doubts...
Thanks once again for the detailed writeup!
Srinivas.B.S.S.T ( Advocate) 09 June 2008
i am glad that my knowledge is useful to you, now regarding your doubts
1) it is not mandatory for a magistrate to accept the charge-sheet filed by the investigating officer as it is, if there are som miscrepancies in the charge-sheet such as sufficient number of copies are not furnished etc the magistrate has a right to return the same causing objection and after the said objection is completed the same will be taken on file and summons will be issued to the accused. Hope your doubt is cleared.
2) In the cases of 498-A the first witness will be your wife, after that your in-laws and persons who have knowledge of passage of dowry (such as marriage elders) will be cited as witnesess. In the case of physical harassment allegations the persons residing next to you or who can have knowledge of such harassment will be cited as witnesses. Every 161 Cr.P.C statement will bear the date of examination of the witness. As one of my friend adviced to earlier if you think the police has not conducted the investigation in proper way you can file a petition under section 482 seeking quash of proceedings. But remember the rate of sucess in quash proceedings is very minimal.
Hope your doubts are cleared. If you have any more doubts you are free to shoot them i will always be there to answer. Have a nice time.