5.4 Criminal Justice and Criminal Proceedings

UK sequence: police investigation → charge decision by the Crown Prosecution Service (independent prosecutor; the "public interest" and evidential tests) → plea → trial (magistrates' or Crown Court; jury in Crown Court trials) → verdict → sentence → appeal. Nepal sequence:FIR (First Information Report — the complaint registered at the police station under the Criminal Procedure Code 2074) → police investigation (with the prosecution service's role) → charge-sheet → trial before the District Court (no jury — judges alone; the standard beyond reasonable doubt) → judgment & sentence → appeal to the High Court → Supreme Court. Comparative points (writetwo): Nepal has no jury system (the world is converging there); the victim's role (FIR by the victim; victim compensation provisions); constitutional fair-trial guarantees in both systems; arrest/ detention safeguards (producing before a judge within 24 hours is a shared constitutional norm); bail's different vocabularies.