(1) When a person is accused of more offences than one of the same kind committed within the space of twelve months from the first to the last of such offences, whether in respect of the same person or not, he may be charged with, and tried at one trial for, any number of them not exceeding three.
(2) Offences are of the same kind when they are punishable with the same amount of punishment under the same section of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) or of any special or local law:
Provided that, for the purposes of this section, an
offence punishable under section 379 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) shall
be deemed to be an offence of the same kind as an offence punishable under
section 380 of the said Code, and that an offence punishable under any section
of the said Code, or of any special or local law, shall be deemed to be an
offence of the same kind as an attempt to commit such offence, when such an
attempt is an offence.
Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC)
212 CrPC Particulars as to time, place and person
213 CrPC When manner of committing offence must be stated
214 CrPC Words in charge taken in sense of law under which offence is punishable
216 CrPC Court may alter charge
217 CrPC Recall of witnesses when charge altered
218 CrPC Separate charges for distinct offences
219 CrPC Three offences of same kind within year may be charged together