Section 242.   Offences of same kind within year may be charged together.

(1) When a person is accused of more offences than one of the same kind
committed within the space of twelve months from the first to the last of such offences,
whether in respect of the same person or not, he may be charged with, and tried at one trial
for, any number of them not exceeding five.
(2) Offences are of the same kind when they are punishable with the same amount of
punishment under the same section of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 or of any special
or local law:
Provided that, for the purposes of this section, an offence punishable under
section 301 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 shall be deemed to be an offence of the
same kind as an offence punishable under section 303 of the said Sanhita, and that an
offence punishable under any section of the said Sanhita, or of any special or local law, shall
be deemed to be an offence of the same kind as an attempt to commit such offence, when
such an attempt is an offence.