Section 170
When persons may be charged jointly
When more persons than one are accused of the same offence or of different offences committed in the same transaction, or when one person is accused of committing an offence and another of abetment of or attempt to commit the same offence, they may be charged and tried together or separately as the Court thinks fit, and the provisions contained in the former part of this Chapter shall apply to all the charges.
(a)
A and B are accused of the same murder. A and B may be charged and tried together for the murder.
(b)
A and B are both charged with a theft, and B is charged with two other thefts committed by him in the course of the same transaction. A and B may be both tried together on a charge charging both with the one theft and B alone with the two other thefts.
(c)
A and B, being members of opposing factions in a riot, should be charged and tried separately.
Criminal Procedure Code 113
(d)
A and B are accused of giving false evidence in the same proceeding. They should be charged and tried separately.
(2)
Persons accused of an offence which includes theft, extortion, criminal breach of trust, cheating or criminal misappropriation, and persons accused of receiving or retaining, or assisting in the disposal or concealment of, property possession of which is alleged to have been transferred by any such offence committed by the first named persons, or of abetment of or attempting to commit any such last-named offence, may be charged and tried together.