SECTION 222 CrPC - Code of Criminal Procedure - When offence proved included in offence charged
Description
- When a person is charged with an offence consisting of several particulars, a combination of some only of which constitutes a complete minor offence, and such combination is proved, but the remaining particulars are not proved, he may be convicted of the minor offence, though he was not charged with it.
- When a person is charged with an offence and facts are proved which reduce it to a minor offence, he may he convicted of the minor offence, although he is not charged with it.
- When a person is charged with an offence, he may be convicted of an attempt to commit such offence although the attempt is not separately charged.
- Nothing in this section shall be deemed to authorise a conviction of any minor offence where the conditions requisite for the initiation of proceedings in respect of that minor offence have not been satisfied.
