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Oral Inquiry - General procedure- part-1 -

On receipt of appointment orders, the Inquiry Officer has to ensure whether the above orders were issued by the competent authority;and copies of the above orders were communicated to the accused with directions and copy of served copy of chargememo with connected evident records wereattached. Immediately the inquiry officer has to issue summons to the accused, prosecution and defence witnesses fixingup a date allowing reasonable time for a preliminary hearing.The Inquiry Officer has to keep record of evidence for having delivered the above summons to all concerned. On the day of preliminary inquiry, in the presence of all concerned, the Inquiry Officer has to read aloud all the charges framed against the accused.In the presence of the accused, all witnesses have to be inquired.The evidences have to inquired following the Evidence Act.Prosecution evidences have to inquired and the accused has to be asked to cross examine them following the depositions of prosecution witnesses/evidences. Evidences/Witnesses must be voluntary and there must not be spoonfeeding.The cross examinations by the accused must be within the depositions of the evidences.The Prosecution witnesses must be assigned as "prosecutionWitnesses-1"(P.W-1),(P.W-2),etc,. The Prosecution Evidences must be marked as "Prosecution Evidences-1" (P.E-1),(P.E-2)etc,;and Similarly Defence witnesses/Evidences marked as D.E-1, D.E-2, etc,.& D.W-1, D.W-2, etc,.Any documents produced as prosecution evidences, it must be shown to the accused and then assigned. A witness belongs to neither prosecution nor defence is called as Court Witness which can be cross examined by both prosecution and defence.all such proceedings have to be recorded in writing  and signatures of all present have to be obtained. Copy of proceedings has to be handed over to the accused and acknowledgement obtained. If necessary the Inquiry Officer may announce fixing another date for the main examination and signatures of all obtained. ---o-