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Facing criminal charges are one of the toughest and stressful situation for any person’s life. We at Counsellor understand the same and strive to ease out your legal tension. We understand that the verdict is just one part of the ordeal, it is a huge stigma which is attached to your life. We make sure that we empathize with our client and treat them with the utmost dignity and respect. We make sure that we go through your case in detail and understand your side of the story. We look into each angle of the case and try to mold it to your advantage.

Our Criminal Defence Lawyers make sure that they protest our innocence or explain your mistake in the best possible way. Our experience team has a vast experience in handling and winning criminal cases. We contest for clients in court of law for the following instances

  1. Benefit Fraud and Financial Crime
  2. Physical or Sexual Assault
  3. Theft or Robbery
  4. Conspiracy of any nature
  5. Offence related to Drugs
  6. Offence in the Public Order
  7. Cyber/Internet Crime
  8. Road/ Driving/ Riding offences
  9. Professional discipline
  10. Criminal appeals
  11. Interviews under caution
  12. Murder
  13. Manslaughter
  14. Extortion
  15. Terrorism related offences

Legal procedure for criminal law:

India has a well-established statutory, administrative and judicial framework for criminal trials. Indian Penal laws are primarily governed by 3 Acts:

The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Cr.P.C.);

The Indian Penal Code, 1960 (IPC);

The Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (IEA).

 

PROCESS OF CRIMINAL TRIAL IN INDIA:

Procedure for administration of criminal justice is divided into three stages: namely investigation, inquiry and trial.

Investigation is a first step conducted by police starts after recording FIR in police station. Investigation usually ends in a police report to magistrate.

Inquiry starts when a magistrate either on police report or on any other complaint being satisfied of the facts.

Trial is the adjudication of a persons guilt. Under the CRPC, criminal trials have been categorized into three divisions having different procedures, i.e. warrant, summons and summary trials.

Warrant cases relates to offences punishable by death. In India Sec 300 of IPC applies in cases of Murder, where death penalty is awarded to a person guilty of murdering other person.

Offences punishable with death, life imprisonment and imprisonment for a term exceeding 7 years, the trial are conducted in sessions court.

Summons cases relates to offences punishable with imprisonment not exceeding 2 years. Cases includes assault, criminal force to any women etcThere are a number of methods that can be used in order to attempt to mitigate the effects of the Indian Agency laws from applying to a franchise relationship depending on the specific terms and conditions of the franchise agreement being negotiated.