Legal Dictionary
Meanings of Indian legal terms, abbreviations and designations in simple English.
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- Central Bureau of InvestigationCBICourt or bodyThe CBI is a central agency that investigates certain serious or high-profile cases, usually those referred to it by the government or the courts.
- Charge sheetProcedureA charge sheet is the police report filed in court at the end of an investigation, setting out what the police found and whom they propose to prosecute.
- Code of Civil ProcedureCPCLegislationThe CPC sets out the procedure that civil courts in India follow, from filing a suit to hearing it, passing a decree and appealing against it.
- Code of Criminal ProcedureCrPCLegislationThe CrPC was the law of criminal procedure from 1973. It has been repealed and replaced by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), though it can still matter for older proceedings.
- Cognizable offenceLegal terminologyA cognizable offence is a more serious offence where the police can register an FIR and begin investigating without first getting a magistrate's permission, and can generally arrest without a warrant.
- ComplainantLegal terminologyThe complainant is the person who reports an offence to the police or makes a complaint to a magistrate or another authority.
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