Tell me stages in criminal case

Any act or omission which is prohibited by law and is punishable by law is a crime. The punishment for such crime is decided by following procedures of criminal trial. The criminal trials in India are well established statutory, administrative and judicial framework. The whole criminal law consists of three main acts –

1. Indian Penal Code, 1860
2. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
3. Indian Evidence Act, 1872.

stages in criminal cases de[pends on the nature of offence you have been charged with. If it is a summns case, there is one type of procedure. If it is a warrant case, there is a slight change. More grevious offences are treated as warrant cases. You have to take bail once the offence has been charged with, either from magistrate court or from sessionsc ourt. Thereafter you will recieve a summons from the court in which the case is tried. After preliminary hearing on charge, a court charge will be framed against you. After that trial will be conducted