(1) Any Magistrate inquiring into or trying a case may permit the prosecution to be conducted by any person other than a police officer below the rank of inspector; but no person, other than the Advocate-General or Government Advocate or a Public Prosecutor or Assistant Public Prosecutor, shall be entitled to do so without such permission:
Provided that no police officer shall be permitted to conduct the prosecution if he has taken part in the investigation into the offence with respect to which the accused is being prosecuted.
(2) Any person
conducting the prosecution may do so personally or by a pleader.
Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC)
301 CrPC Appearance by Public Prosecutors
302 CrPC Permission to conduct prosecution
303 CrPC Right of person against whom proceedings are instituted to be defended
304 CrPC Legal aid to accused at State expense in certain cases
305 CrPC Procedure when corporation or registered society is an accused
306 CrPC Tender of pardon to accomplice
307 CrPC Power to direct tender of pardon
308 CrPC Trial of person not complying with conditions of pardon