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Definition :

Charge-sheet, a paper kept at a police-station to receive each night the names of the persons brought and given into custody, the nature of the accusation, and the name of the accuser in each case. It is under the care of the inspector on duty. Unless the accuser is willing to sign the charge-sheet, the accused will generally not be detained.

--The expression 'charge-sheet' is understood in Police Manuals of several States containing the rules and regulations to be a report by the police filed under s. 170 of the Code, described as a 'charge-sheet', Gangadhar Janardan Mhatre v. State of Maharashtra, (2004) 7 SCC 768 (774). [Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, ss. 170, 169 and 173 (2)]

Military law. A four part charging instrument containing (1) information about the accused and the witness, (2) the charges and specifications, (3) the preferring of charges and their referral to a summary. Special or general court-martial for trial, and (4) for a summary court-martial, the trial record, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.