INDIAN CRIMINAL LAW с CONTAINING THE INDIAN PENAL CODE AND OTHER INDIAN ACTS RELATING TO IN COUNCIL RELATING TO OFFENCES TRIABLE IN INDIA: INCLUDING ACT X. OF 1886; WITH FORMS OF CHARGES, AND NOTES ON EVIDENCE, ILLUSTRATED AND AN APPENDIX OF ACTS RELATING TO CRIMINAL MATTERS. BY M♪ H. STARLING, B.A., LL.B., OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. THE materials of the present work are arranged in a form well known to English lawyers, viz., that of " Archbold's Pleading and Evidence in Criminal Cases." The sections of the Penal Code, as amended by Act XXVII of 1870, Act XIX of 1872, and Act VIII of 1882, have been grouped so as to bring into juxtaposition those which relate to the same class of offences. To each group has been appended a short paragraph containing information collected from Schedule II of Act X of 1882, respecting the Courts competent to try offenders; the power of the police to arrest with or without a warrant; the issue of a summons or warrant in the first instance by the Magistrate; as to whether offenders are bailable or not; as to whether offences are compoundable; and, from Sections 195 to 199, as to the sanctions required for the prosecution of certain offences. Where such has been necessary reference has also been made to the provisions of the Whipping Act of 1864, and the increased punishments provided by Section 75 of the Penal Code, under each group of sections. Belonging to and following nearly all the groups of sections, will be found one or more forms of charges, which are intended as models from which other similar ones may be framed. In drawing these, I have followed the decisions of the High Courts in respect to the proper wording of charges, and the practice which obtains in the |