Criminal Procedure Code 103 Separate charges for distinct offences 163. For every distinct offence of which any person is accused there shall be a separate charge, and every such charge shall be tried separately, except in the cases mentioned in sections 164, 165, 166 and 170. ILLUSTRATION A is accused of a theft on one occasion, and of causing grievous hurt on another occasion. A must be separately charged and separately tried for the theft and causing grievous hurt. Three offences of same kind within twelve months may be charged together 164. (1) When a person is accused of more offences than one of the same kind committed within the space of twelve months from the first to the last of such offences, whether in respect of the same person or not, he may be charged with and tried at one trial for any number of them not exceeding three. (2) Offences are of the same kind when they are punishable with the same amount of punishment under the same section of the Penal Code, or of any other law for the time being in force: Provided that, for the purpose of this section, an offence punishable under section 379, 380, 382, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396 or 397 of the Penal Code shall be deemed to be an offence of the same kind as an offence punishable under any other of the said sections, and that an offence punishable under any section of the Penal Code or of any other law for the time being in force shall be deemed to be an offence of the same kind as an attempt to commit such an offence, when such an attempt is an offence. Trial for more than one offence 165. (1) If in one series of acts so connected together as to form the same transaction more offences than one are committed by the same person, he may be charged with and tried at one trial for every such offence.