Joint Charges

(1) Any number of accused may be charged in the same charge-sheet with offences alleged to have been committed by them separately if the acts on which the charges are founded are so connected that it is in the interests of justice that they be tried together. (2) Any number of accused may be charged jointly in one charge for an offence alleged to have been committed by them jointly. (3) Where so charged under paragraph (2) any one or more of such accused may at the same time be charged in the same charge-sheet with any other offence alleged to have been committed by him or them ‘individually or jointly, provided that such charges could, if the accused to whom they relate had been tried separately, have been included under rule 10(1) in the same charge sheet as the other charges against him.