law: Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
  219.Three offences of same kind within year
  
  may be charged together.-
  (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 Indian Penal Code or of any special
  
  or local law:
  
  Provided that, for the purposes of this section, an offence punishable
  
  under section 379 of the Indian Penal Code(45 of 1860) shall be deemed to be an
  
  offence of the same kind as an offence punishable under section 380 of the said
  
  Code,(45 of 1860) and that an offence punishable under any section of the said
  
  Code, or of any special or local law, shall be deemed to be an offence of the
  
  same kind as an attempt to commit such offence, when such an attempt is an
  
  offence.