3.5 The Charge-Sheet (Abhiyog Patra) — the Prosecution's Paper

The purpose: the government attorney's formal accusation in the district court after the investigation supports a case. The anatomy (drafting template): The cause-title — the State (through the office concerned) versus the accused; The accused's identification — the name, age, address, custody status; The offence charged — the offence's name with the statute and its year (the charge's legal characterisation); The facts constituting the offence — chronological, concrete, mapping onto the offence's elements (the element-mapping below); The witnesses' and exhibits' list — the proof's inventory; The prayer — conviction and lawful sentence. Craft rules: the facts map to the ELEMENTS (a weak charge-sheet pleads conclusions; a strong one pleads facts that satisfy each element); the date-and-place exact (the limitation and the jurisdiction); the offences' counts separated (one count, one offence-instance); the law's name exact (the misdescription the quashing's ground).