Gujarat High Court Criminal Manual (subordinate court practice), 1977
(2) Where an accused person is charged with a number of offences, there should be a separate head of charge for each separate offence alleged to have been committed by him. (3) Where several persons are tried together for different offences committed in the course of the same transaction, there should be a separate head of charge for each of those offences. (4) Where five persons or more are charged with committing an offence, it would ordinarily be desirable to frame charges in the alternative, both under section 34 and section 149, Indian Penal Code. An alternative charge may also be framed against the accused, who is or who are alleged to have committed the particular act constituting the offence. (5) In prosecutions for giving false evidence under sections 193, 194 and 195 of the Indian Penal Code, the particular statements alleged to be false should invariably be set out in the charge, to enable the accused to understand fully the offence with which he stands charged.