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Important Sections of The Criminal Procedure Code (CRPC) by Adv SK Singh
Important Sections of The Criminal Procedure Code (CRPC) by Adv SK Singh
Here is a list of the most important sections of CrPC. Due care has been taken to include almost
all essentials and that is why more than one hundred fifty sections are mentioned below
Section 2 – Definitions.
Section 12 – Chief Judicial Magistrate and Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, etc.
Section 56 – Person arrested to be taken before Magistrate or officer in charge of police station.
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Section 82 – Proclamation for person absconding.
Section 86 – Appeal from order rejecting application for restoration of attached property.
Section 108 – Security for good behaviour from persons disseminating seditious matters.
Section 125 to Section 128 – CHAPTER IX, Order for Maintenance of Wives, Children and
Parents.
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Section 130 – Use of armed forces to disperse assembly.
Section 132 – Protection against prosecution for acts done under preceding sections.
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 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 225 to Section 237 – CHAPTER XVIII, Trial Before a Court of Session.
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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 300 – Person once convicted or acquitted not to be tried for same offence.
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Section 436A – Maximum period for which an undertrial prisoner can be detained.
Section 437A – Bail to require accused to appear before next appellate Court.
Section 439 – Special powers of High Court or Court of Session regarding bail.
Section 468 – Bar to taking cognizance after lapse of the period of limitation.
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