The High Court of Calcutta, in a decision pertaining to framing of charge in a corruption case, has said that absence of written charge is a curable defect when there is no proof that any prejudice is caused to the accused. The argument, fortified by the earlier decisions of the Supreme Court that written charge is a must, advanced by the counsel for the petitioner was repelled by the Court on finding that no prejudice to the petitioner was caused. The factual background of the case was that the petitioner was charge-sheeted by the CBI along with the others and the Special Court has framed charges, but not in writing, against them in the year 2010 and later, in the year 2014, the court has filled up the form of written charges, during this interregnum one of the accused has expired. The argument raised by the counsel that the framing of charge in the year 2014 would not stand in view of the demise of a co-accused. The observed that: Thus, the only point involved in this criminal revisi...