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Code of Criminal Procedure

(CRPC)

Appearance by Public Prosecutors.

Chapter 24: General Provisions As To Inquiries And Trials

Section: 301

(1)The Public Prosecutor or Assistant Public Prosecutor in charge of a case may appear and plead without any written authority before any Court in which that case is under inquiry, trial or appeal.

(2)If in any such case any private person instructs a pleader to prosecute any person in any Court, the Public Prosecutor or Assistant Public Prosecutor in charge of the case shall conduct the prosecution, and the pleader so instructed shall act therein under the directions of the Public Prosecutor or Assistant Public Prosecutor, and may, with the permission of the Court, submit written arguments after the evidence is closed in the case.

WEST BENGAL.- The following shall be substituted for sub-section (1) of Section 301 :"(1)(a) The Public Prosecutor in charge of a case may appear and plead without any written authority before any Court in which that case is under inquiry, trial or appeal,(b) The Assistant Public Prosecutor in charge of a case may appear and plead without any written authority before any Court in which that case is under inquiry or trial." [West Bengal Act No. 26 of 1990, Section 4]

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