Directorate of Prosecution.

What this section does

The State Government may establish a Directorate of Prosecution at the state level and a District Directorate of Prosecution in every district, with prescribed eligibility criteria for Director, Deputy Director, and Assistant Director of Prosecution. The Directorate functions under the Home Department; the Director monitors cases punishable with ten or more years, life imprisonment, or death, while Deputy and Assistant Directors handle cases of lesser severity. All Public Prosecutors appointed by the State Government are subordinate to the appropriate level of the Directorate.

AI-generated plain-language summary. For the binding statutory text, see India Code (official).

Procedure at a glance

Key actors

State Government · Director of Prosecution · Deputy Director of Prosecution · Assistant Director of Prosecution · Public Prosecutor · Additional Public Prosecutor · Special Public Prosecutor · Assistant Public Prosecutor · Home Department

Derived from CrPC s.25A.