A Joint complaint is maintainable in the CrPC, S.13 of the General Clauses Act, says that, unless where the context requires otherwise, words that refer to singular include plural, and there is nothing in S.200 of the CrpC (dealing with examination of complainant in complaint case) that says to the contrary or disallows the same… (Shital Chandra Dutta v. Babu Ram AIR 1967 All 150)