law: Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
  
  211.Contents of charge.-
  (1) Every charge under this Code shall state
  
  the offence with which the accused is charged.
  (2) If the law which creates the offence gives it any specific name, the
  
  offence may be described in the charge by that name only.
  (3) If the law which creates the offence does not give it any specific name, so
  
  much of the definition of the offence must be stated as to give the accused
  
  notice of the matter with which he is charged.
  (4) The law and section of the law against which the offence is said to have
  
  been committed shall be mentioned in the charge.
  (5) The fact that the charge is made is equivalent to a statement that every
  
  legal condition required by law to constitute the offence charged was fulfilled
  
  in the particular case.
  (6) The charge shall be written in the language of the Court.
  (7) If the accused, having been previously convicted of any offence, is liable,
  
  by reason of such previous conviction, to enhanced punishment, or to punishment
  
  of a different kind, for a subsequent offence, and it is intended to prove such
  
  previous conviction for the purpose of affecting the punishment which the Court
  
  may think fit to award for the subsequent offence, the fact, date and place of
  
  the previous conviction shall be stated in the charge; and if such statement
  
  has been omitted, the Court may add it at any time before sentence is passed.
  
  Illustrations
  
  
  (a) A is charged with the murder of B.This is equivalent to a statement that
  
  A's act fell within the definition of murder given in section 299 and 300 of
  
  the Indian Penal Code(45 of 1860); that it did not fall within any of the
  
  general exceptions of the said Code; and that it did not fall within any of the
  
  five exceptions to section 300, or that, if it did fall within Exception 1, one
  
  or other of the three provisos to that exception applied to it.
  (b) A is charged under section 326 of the Indian Penal Code(45 of 1860) with
  
  voluntarily causing grievous hurt to B by means of an instrument for shooting.
  
  This is equivalent to a statement that the case was not provided for by section
  
  335 of the said Code, and that the general exceptions did not apply to it.
  (c) A is accused of murder, cheating, theft, extortion, adultery or criminal
  
  intimidation, or using a false property-mark. The charge may state that A
  
  committed murder, or cheating, or theft, or extortion, or adultery, or criminal
  
  intimidation, or that he used a false property-mark, without reference to the
  
  definitions of those crime contained in the Indian Penal Code(45 of 1860); but
  
  the sections under which the offence is punishable must, in each instance, be
  
  referred to in the charge.
  (d) A is charged under section 184 of the Indian Penal Code(45 of 1860) with
  
  intentionally obstructing a sale of property offered for sale by the lawful
  
  authority of a public servant. The charge should be in those words.