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CRPC Important Sections
Important Sections of CRPC
Section 2 – Definitions.
Section 6 – Classes of Criminal Courts.
Section 9 – Court of Session.
Section 10 – Subordination of Assistant Sessions Judges.
Section 11 – Courts of Judicial Magistrates.
Section 12 – Chief Judicial Magistrate and Additional Chief Judicial
Magistrate, etc.
Section 13 – Special Judicial Magistrates.
Section 30 – Sentence of imprisonment in default of fine.
Section 31 – Sentence in cases of conviction of several offences at one trial.
Section 41 to Section 54 – Arrest of Persons.
Section 56 – Person arrested to be taken before Magistrate or officer in charge
of police station.
Section 57 – Person arrested not to be detained more than twenty-four hours.
Section 59 – Discharge of person apprehended.
Section 61 to Section 69 – Summons.
Section 70 to Section 81 – Warrant of arrest.
Section 82 – Proclamation for person absconding.
Section 83 – Attachment of property of person absconding.
Section 84 – Claims and objections to attachment.
Section 85 – Release, sale and restoration of attached property.
Section 86 – Appeal from order rejecting application for restoration of attached
property.
Section 87 – Issue of warrant in lieu of, or in addition to, summons.
Section 88 – Power to take bond for appearance.
Section 93 – When search-warrant may be issued.
Section 97 – Search for persons wrongfully confined.
Section 102 – Power of police officer to seize certain property.
Section 106 – Security for keeping the peace on conviction.
Section 107 – Security for keeping the peace in other cases.
Section 108 – Security for good behaviour from persons disseminating seditious
matters.
Section 109 – Security for good behaviour from suspected persons.
Section 110 – Security for good behaviour from habitual offenders.
Section 125 to Section 128 – CHAPTER IX, Order for Maintenance of Wives,
Children and Parents.
Section 129 – Dispersal of assembly by use of civil force.
Section 130 – Use of armed forces to disperse assembly.
Section 132 – Protection against prosecution for acts done under preceding
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sections.
Section 133 – Conditional order for removal of nuisance.
Section 144 – Power to issue order in urgent cases of nuisance or apprehended
danger.
Section 154 to Section 176 – CHAPTER XII, Information to the Police and
their Powers to Investigate.
Section 177 to Section 189 – CHAPTER XIII, Jurisdiction of the Criminal
Courts in Inquiries and Trials.
Section 190 – Cognizance of offences by Magistrates.
Section 195 – Prosecution for contempt of lawful authority of public servants,
for offences against public justice and for offences relating to documents given
in evidence.
Section 196 – Prosecution for offences against the State and for criminal
conspiracy to commit such offence.
Section 198 – Prosecution for offences against marriage.
Section 199 – Prosecution for defamation.
Section 200 to Section 203 – CHAPTER XV, Complaints to Magistrates.
Section 204 – Issue of process.
Section 211 to Section 224 – CHAPTER XVII, The Charge.
Section 225 to Section 237 – CHAPTER XVIII, Trial Before a Court of
Session.
Section 238 to Section 250 – CHAPTER XIX, Trial of Warrant Cases by
Magistrates.
Section 251 to Section 259 – CHAPTER XX, Trial of Summons Cases by
Magistrates.
Section 260 – Power to try summarily.
Section 261 – Summary trial by Magistrate of the second class.
Section 262 – Procedure for summary trials.
Section 265A to Section 265L – CHAPTER XXIA, Plea Bargaining.
Section 300 – Person once convicted or acquitted not to be tried for same
offence.
Section 304 – Legal aid to accused at State expense in certain cases.
Section 307 – Power to direct tender of pardon.
Section 311 – Power to summon material witness, or examine person present.
Section 313 – Power to examine the accused.
Section 315 – Accused person to be competent witness.
Section 320 – Compounding of offences.
Section 366 – Sentence of death to be submitted by Court of Session for
confirmation.
Section 368 – Power of High Court to confirm sentence or annul conviction.
Section 395 – Reference to High Court.
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Section 401 – High Court’s powers of revision.
Section 436 – In what cases bail to be taken.
Section 436A – Maximum period for which an undertrial prisoner can be
detained.
Section 437 – When bail may be taken in case of non-bailable offence.
Section 437A – Bail to require accused to appear before next appellate Court.
Section 438 – Direction for grant of bail to person apprehending arrest.
Section 439 – Special powers of High Court or Court of Session regarding bail.
Section 460 – Irregularities which do not vitiate proceedings.
Section 461 – Irregularities which vitiate proceedings.
Section 468 – Bar to taking cognizance after lapse of the period of limitation.
Section 482 – Saving of inherent power of High Court.
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