What Do You Mean By Judgement

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Meaning of Judgement : Judgement means the observation and decision of court of law in respect of a particular case after conclusion of a trial. Content of Judgement : Every Judgement - Shall be written in the language of the court. Shall contain the point or points for determination, the decision there on and the reason for the decision. Shall specify the offence of which and section of The Indian Penal Code, 1860 or other law under which the accused is convicted and the punishment to which he is sentenced. If the Judgement is of acquittal, it shall state the offence, of which the accused is acquitted and direct that he be set at liberty section 354(1). Object : The object should be to protect the society and to deter the criminal in achieving the avowed object of law by imposing appropriate sentence. The social impact of the crime like where its relates to offences against woman, kidnapping and other offences involving moral delinquency which have great impact on s

What do you mean by Charge and Charge Sheet

Define Charge :

Under section - 211 it is a precise formulation of allegation against the accused. It is a first notice to the prisoner of informing him about the allegation. It is made in a specific format.
The object is to convey the accused about the allegation brought against him.

Essential of Charge :

  1. There should be specific name of the offence with relevant details.
  2. Under section - 211(1) it should be written in the language of the court. As an example In Bengal, it is written Bengali or English language.
  3. The relevant Act or law with section should be mention.
  4. All the legal condition must be fulfilled.
  5. The word should be clear and specific there should not be any vagueness or confusing matter.

Charge Sheet :

There should be a specific prescribed format where all the matter of charge in details is called charge sheet.

Supplementary Charge Sheet : 

All the details including name of witness description in matter should be clearly mention. If there is any kind of mistake or error in matter of filling charge sheet than mistake or error can be rectify by the process of filling any another charge sheet which known is supplementary charge sheet.

Framing of Charge :

In presence of general Magistrate a question is directly placed or asked to the accused weather he is guilty or not? If he says about his innocence then the trials actually begins.

Case Law :-

C.P. Malick v/s State 1999 CRLJ (Delhi)
It was ruled that at the time of framing or charge examination of evidence is not necessery.
R.S. Redkar v/s State of Maharashtra 1980 CRLJ (Bombay) 
It was held that the charge should be properly filled and the evidence should be related with the matters.

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