Pakistan Penal Code
Year: 1860 · Total entries: 638
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This Act shall be called the Penal Code, and shall take effect throughout Pakistan....
Punishment of offences committed within Pakistan. Every person shall be liable to punishment under this Code and not otherwise for every act or omissi...
Any persons liable, by any Pakistan law, to be tried for an offence committed beyond Pakistan shall be dealt with according to the provisions of this ...
Extension of Code to extra-territorial offences. The provisions of this Code apply also to any offence committed by__ 1The Pakistan Penal Code has bee...
Nothing in this Act is intended to repeal, vary, suspend or affect any of the provisions of any Act for punishing mutiny and desertion of officers, so...
Throughout this Code every definition of an offence, every penal provision and every illustration of every such definition or penal provision, shall b...
Every expression which is explained in any part of this Code is used in every part of this Code in conformity with the explanation....
The pronoun “he” and its derivatives are used of any person, whether male or female....
Unless the contrary appears from the context, words importing the singular number include the plural number, and words importing the plural number inc...
The word “man” denotes a male human being of any age : the word “woman” denotes a female human being of any age....
The word “person” includes any Company or Association, or body of persons, whether incorporated or not....
The word “public” includes any class of the public or any community....
[Definition of “Queen”.] Omitted by A.O., 1961, Art. 2 and Sch. (w.e.f. the 23rd March, 1956)....
“Servant of the State”. The words “servant of the State” denote all officers or servants continued, appointed or employed in Pakistan, by or under the...
by A. O., 1937....
by A.O., 1937....
The word “Government” denotes the person or persons authorized by law to administer executive Government in ....
by A. O., 1937<sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup><sup>[3]</sup>as a Judge, but also every person,– who is empowered by law to give, in any legal proceeding, ...
“Judge”. The word “Judge” denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a Judge, but also every person,– who is empowered by law to gi...
by the Indian Criminal Law (Amdt.) Act, 1895 (3 of 1895), s.2<sup>[2]</sup>(3) In this section “fictitious stamp” means any stamp falsely purporting t...
The words “Court of Justice” denote a Judge who is empowered by law to act judicially alone, or a body of Judges which is empowered by law to act judi...
The words “public servant” denote a person falling under any of the descriptions hereinafter following, namely:__<sup>[*]</sup> Second.__ Every Commis...
“Moveable property”. The words “Moveable property” are intended to include corporeal property of every description, except land and thing attached to ...
“Wrongful gain” is gain by unlawful means of property to which the person gaining is not legally entitled. “Wrongful loss”. “Wrongful loss” is the los...
Whoever does anything with the intention of causing wrongful gain to one person or wrongful loss to another person, is said to do that thing "dishones...
A person is said to do a thing fraudulently if he does that thing with intent to defraud but not otherwise....
A person is said to have “reason to believe” a thing if he has sufficient cause to believe that thing but not otherwise....
When property is in the possession of a person's wife, clerk or servant, on account of that person, it is in that person's possession within the meani...
A person is said to “counterfeit” who causes one thing to resemble another thing, intending by means of that resemblance to practice deception, or kno...
The word “document” denotes any matter expressed or described upon any substance by means of letters, figures or marks, or by more than one of those m...
by the Criminal Law Amdt. Act, 1953 (37 of 1953), <a href="/ppc/2">s. 2</a>. Certain abettors excepted. A person shall be deemed not to abet an offenc...
The words “valuable security” denote a document which is, or purports to be, a document whereby any legal right is created, extended, transferred, res...
The words “a will” denote any testamentary document....
In every part of this Code, except where a contrary intention appears from the context, words which refer to acts done extend also to illegal omission...
The word “act” denotes as well a series of acts as a single act : the word “omission” denotes as well a series of omissions as a single omission<sup>[...
Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention. When a criminal act is done by several persons, in furtherance of the common intentio...
When such an act is criminal by reason of its being done with a criminal Knowledge or intention. Whenever an act, which is criminal only by reason of ...
Wherever the causing of a certain effect, or an attempt to cause that effect, by an act or by an omission, is an offence, it is to be understood that ...
When an offence is committed by means of several acts, whoever intentionally co-operates in the commission of that offence by doing any one of those a...
Where several persons are engaged or concerned in the commission of a criminal act, they may be guilty of different offences by means of that act. A a...
A person is said to cause an effect “voluntarily” when he causes it by means whereby he intended to cause it, or by means which, at the time of employ...
by the Criminal Laws Amdt. Act, 1958 (34 of 1958), <a href="/ppc/2">s. 2</a>. 4Subs. & Ins. by Act III of 1990, s.2 & s.3<sup>[5]</sup><sup>[6]</sup>s...
“Offence.” Except in the 2[chapters] and sections mentioned in clauses 2 and 3 of this section, the word "offence" denotes a thing made punishable by ...
A “special law” is a law applicable to a particular subject....
A “local law” is a law applicable only to a particular part of ....
which is an offence or which is prohibited by law, or which furnishes ground for a civil action : and a person is said to be “legally bound to do” wha...
in body, mind, reputation or property....
from the context. lSubs. by the Indian Penal Code Amdt. Act, 1870 (27 of 1870), <a href="/ppc/2">s. 2</a>, for the original <a href="/ppc/40">section ...
“Death.” The word “death” denotes the death of a human being, unless the contrary appears from the context....
“Animal.” The word “animal” denotes any living creature, other than a human being....
human beings or of property....
understood that the year or the month is to be reckoned according to the British calendar....
which are distinguished by prefixed numeral figures....
and any declaration required or authorized by law to be made before a public servant or to be used for the purpose of proof, whether in a Court of Jus...
believed without due care and attention....
Punishments.__ The punishments to which offenders are liable under the provisions of __ this Code are, Firstly, Qisas ; Secondly, Diyat ; Thirdly, Ars...
In every case in which sentence of death shall have been passed, within which the offender shall have been sentenced may, without the consent of the o...
In every case in which sentence of [imprisonment] for life shall have been passed, within which the offender shall have been sentenced may, without th...
by the Criminal Law (Extinction of Discriminatory Privileges) Act, 1949 (II of 1950), Schedule<sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup><sup>[4]</sup><sup>[5]</sup>...
Fractions of terms of punishment. In calculating fractions of terms of punishment,1[imprisonment for life] shall be reckoned as equivalent to 1[impris...
[Offenders sentenced to transportation how dealt with until, transported.] Omitted by the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1972 (XII of 1972), <a href="/ppc/2">...
[Transportation instead of imprisonment.] Omitted by the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1972 (XII of 1972), <a href="/ppc/2">s. 2</a> and Sch....
simple. In every case in which an offender is punishable with imprisonment which may be of either description, it shall be competent to the Court whic...
by the India Penal Code (Amdt.) Act, 1921 (XVI of 1921), <a href="/ppc/4">s. 4</a>....
or imprisonment.] Rep. by the Indian Penal Code (Amdt.) Act, 1921 (XVI of 1921), <a href="/ppc/4">s. 4</a>....
Where no sum is expressed to which a fine may extend, the amount of fine to which the offender is liable is unlimited, but shall not be excessive....
it shall be competent to the Court which sentences such offender to direct by the sentence that, in default of payment of the fine, the offender shall...
awardable. The term for which the Court directs the offender to be imprisoned in default of payment of a fine shall not exceed one-fourth of the term ...
The imprisonment which the Court imposes in default of payment of a fine may be of any description to which the offender might have been sentenced for...
Imprisonment for non-payment of fine, when offence punishable with fine only. If the offence be punishable with fine only, 1[the imprisonment which th...
The imprisonment which is imposed in default of payment of a fine shall terminate whenever that fine is either paid or levied by process of law....
If, before the expiration of the term of imprisonment fixed in default of payment, such a proportion of the fine be paid or levied that the term of im...
Death not to discharge property from liability. The fine, or any part thereof which remains unpaid, may be levied at any time within six years after t...
Where anything which is an offence is made up of parts, any of which parts is itself an offence, the offender shall not be punished with the punishmen...
it is doubtful of which. In all cases in which judgment is given that a person is guilty of one of several offences specified in the judgment, but tha...
Whenever any person is convicted of an offence for which under this Code the Court has power to sentence him to rigorous imprisonment, the Court may, ...
In executing a sentence of solitary confinement, such confinement shall in no case exceed fourteen days at a time, with intervals between the period o...
after previous conviction...
law. Nothing is an offence which is done by a person who is, or who by reason of a mistake of fact and not by reason of a mistake of law in good faith...
Nothing is an offence which is done by a Judge when acting judicially in the exercise of any power which is, or which in good faith he believes to be,...
Nothing which is done in pursuance of, or which is warranted by the judgment or order of, a Court of Justice, if done whilst such judgment or order re...
law. Nothing is an offence which is done by any person who is justified by law, or who by reason of a mistake of fact and not by reason of a mistake o...
Nothing is an offence which is done by accident or misfortune, and without any criminal intention or knowledge in the doing of a lawful act in a lawfu...
harm. Nothing is an offence merely by reason of its being done with the knowledge that it is likely to cause harm, if it be done without any criminal ...
Nothing is an offence which is done by a child under 1[ten] years of age....
Nothing is an offence which is done by a child above 1[ten] years of age and under , who has not attained sufficient maturity of understanding to judg...
Nothing is an offence which is done by a person who, at the time of doing it, by reason of unsoundness of mind, is incapable of knowing the nature of ...
Act of a person incapable of judgment by reason of intoxication caused against his will. Nothing is an offence which is done by a person who, at the t...
intoxicated. In cases where an act done is not an offence unless done with a particular knowledge or intent, a person who does the act in a state of i...
by consent. Nothing which is not intended to cause death, or grievous hurt, and which is not known by the doer to be likely to cause death, or grievou...
Nothing, which is not intended to cause death, is an offence by reason of any harm which it may cause, or be intended by the doer to cause, or be know...
guardian. Nothing which is done in good faith for the benefit of a person under twelve years of age, or of unsound mind, by or by consent, either expr...
A consent is not such a consent as is intended by any section of this Code, if the consent is given by a person under fear of injury, or under a misco...
The exceptions in <a href="/ppc/87">sections 87</a>, 88 and 89 do not extend to acts which are offences independently of any harm which they may cause...
Nothing is an offence by reason of any harm which it may cause to a person for whose benefit it is done in good faith, even without that person's cons...
No communication made in good faith is an offence by reason of any harm to the person to whom it is made, if it is made for the benefit of that person...
Except murder, and offences against the State punishable with death, nothing is an offence which is done by a person who is compelled to do it by thre...
Nothing is an offence by reason that it causes, or that it is intended to cause, or that it is known to be likely to cause, any harm, if that harm is ...
Nothing is an offence which is done in the exercise of the right of private defence....
Every person has a right, subject to the restrictions contained in <a href="/ppc/99">section 99</a>, to defend__ First.__ His own body, and the body o...
When an act, which would otherwise be a certain offence is not that offence, by reason of the youth, the want of maturity of understanding, the unsoun...
There is no right of private defence against an act which does not reasonably cause the apprehension of death or of grievous hurt, if done, or attempt...
The right of private defence of the body extends, under the restrictions mentioned in the last preceding section, to the voluntary causing of death or...
If the offence be not of any of the descriptions enumerated in the last preceding section, the right of private defence of the body does not extend to...
The right of private defence of the body commences as soon as a reasonable apprehension of danger to the body arises from an attempt or threat to comm...
The right of private defence of property extends, under the restrictions mentioned in <a href="/ppc/99">section 99</a>, to the voluntary causing of de...
If the offence, the committing of which, or the attempting to commit which, occasions the exercise of the right of private defence, be theft, mischief...
The right of private defence of property commences when a reasonable apprehension of danger to the property commences. The right of private defence of...
innocent person. If in the exercise of the right of private defence against an assault which reasonably causes the apprehension of death, the defender...
A person abets the doing of a thing, who— First.— Instigates any person to do that thing ; or, Secondly.__ Engages with one or more other person or pe...
A person abets an offence, who abets either the commission of an offence, or the commission of an act which would be an offence, if committed by a per...
no express provision is made for its punishment. Whoever abets any offence shall, if the act abetted is committed in consequence of the abetment, and ...
that of abettor. Whoever abets the commission of an offence shall, if the person abetted does the act with a different intention or knowledge from tha...
When an act is abetted and a different act is done, the abettor is liable for the act done, in the same manner and to the same extent as if he had dir...
If the act for which the abettor is liable under the last preceding section is committed in addition to the act abetted, and constitutes a distinct of...
intended by the abettor. When an act is abetted with the intention on the part of the abettor of causing a particular effect, and an act for which the...
Abettor present when offence is committed. Whenever any person, who if absent would be liable to be punished as an abettor, is present when the act or...
committed; Whoever abets the commission of an offence punishable with death or , shall, if that offence be not committed in consequence of the abetmen...
Whoever abets an offence punishable with imprisonment shall, if that offence be not committed in consequence of the abetment, and no express provision...
Whoever abets the commission of an offence by the public generally or by any number or class of persons exceeding ten, shall be punished with imprison...
life. Whoever intending to facilitate or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby facilitate the commission of an offence punishable with death or...
Whoever, being a public servant intending to facilitate or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby facilitate the commission of an offence which ...
Whoever, intending to facilitate or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby facilitate the commission of an offence punishable with imprisonment,...
Whoever wages war against , or attempts to wage such war, or abets the waging of such war, shall be punished with death, or , . [*] A joins an insurre...
Collecting arms, etc., with intention of waging war against Pakistan. Whoever collects men, arms or ammunition or otherwise prepares to wage war with ...
Whoever, by any act, or by any illegal omission, conceals the existence of a design to wage war against , intending by such concealment to facilitate,...
of any lawful power. Whoever, with the intention of inducing or compelling the of Subs. by A. O., 1961, Art. 2 and Sch., for the “the Queen” (w.e.f. 2...
Whoever wages war against the Government of any<sup>[12]</sup> Power in alliance or at peace with or attempts to wage such war, or abets the waging of...
Whoever commits depredation, or makes preparations to commit depredation, on the territories of any Power in alliance or at peace with , shall be puni...
Receiving property taken by war or depredation mentioned in <a href="/ppc/125">sections 125</a> and <a href="/ppc/126">126</a>...
Whoever, being a public servant and having the custody of any State prisoner or prisoner of war, voluntarily allows such prisoner to escape from any p...
Whoever, being a public servant and having the custody of any State prisoner or prisoner of war, negligently suffers such prisoner to escape from any ...
Whoever knowingly aids or assists any State prisoner or prison of war in escaping from lawful custody, or rescues or attempts to rescue any such priso...
Whoever abets the committing of mutiny by an officer, soldier, , in the Army, of , or attempts to seduce any such officer, soldier, from his allegianc...
Abetment of mutiny, if mutiny is committed in consequence thereof. Whoever abets the committing of mutiny by an officer, soldier, 1[sailor or airman],...
execution of his office. Whoever abets an assault by an officer, soldier, , in the Army, of , on any superior officer being in the execution of his of...
Whoever abets an assault by an officer, soldier, , in the Army, of , on any superior officer being in the execution of his office, shall, if such assa...
Whoever abets the desertion of any officer, soldier, , in the Army, of , shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which ma...
Whoever, except as hereinafter excepted, knowing or having reason to believe that an officer, soldier, , in the Army, of [Pakistan], has deserted, har...
The master or person incharge of a merchant vessel, on board of which any deserter from the Army, of is concealed, shall, though ignorant of such conc...
Whoever abets what he knows to be an act of insubordination by an officer, soldier, , in the Army, [Navy or Air Force] of , shall, if such act of insu...
Persons subject to certain Acts. No person subject to the Pakistan Army Act, 1952, (XXXIX of 1952) of the Pakistan Air Force Act, 1953, (VI of 1953) o...
Whoever, not being a soldier, in the Military, service of , wears any garb or carries any token resembling any garb or token used by such a soldier wi...
An assembly of five or more persons is designated an “unlawful assembly,” if the common object of the persons composing that assembly is__ First.__ To...
Whoever, being aware of facts which render any assembly an unlawful assembly, intentionally joins that assembly, or continues in it, is said to be a m...
Punishment. Whoever is a member of an unlawful assembly, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six ...
Whoever, being armed with any deadly weapon, or with anything which, used as a weapon of offence, is likely to cause death, is a member of an unlawful...
disperse. Whoever joins or continues in an unlawful assembly, knowing that such unlawful assembly has been commanded in the manner prescribed by law t...
Whenever force or violence is used by an unlawful assembly, or by any member thereof, in prosecution of the common object of such assembly, every memb...
Whoever is guilty of rioting, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or wit...
Whoever is guilty of rioting, being armed with a deadly weapon or with anything which, used as a weapon of offence, is likely to cause death, shall be...
common object. If an offence is committed by any member of an unlawful assembly in prosecution of the common object of that assembly, or such as the m...
Whoever hires or engages, or employs, or promotes, or connives at the hiring, engagement or employment of any person to join or become a member of any...
been commanded to disperse. Whoever knowingly joins or continues in any assembly of five or more persons likely to cause a disturbance of the public p...
Whoever assaults or threatens to assault, or obstructs or attempts to obstruct, any public servant in the discharge riot or affray, or uses, or threat...
not committed. Whoever malignantly, or wantonly, by doing anything which is illegal, gives provocation to any person intending or knowing it to be lik...
Whenever any unlawful assembly or riot takes place, the owner or occupier of the land upon which such unlawful assembly is held, or such riot is commi...
Whenever a riot is committed for the benefit or on behalf of any person who is the owner or occupier of any land respecting which such riot takes plac...
Whenever a riot is committed for the benefit or on behalf of any person who is the owner or occupier of any land respecting which such riot takes plac...
Whoever harbours, receives or assembles, in any house or premises in his occupation or charge, or under his control any persons, knowing that such per...
Whoever is engaged or hired, or offers or attempts to be hired or engaged, to do or assist in doing any...
When two or more persons, by fighting in a public place, disturb the public peace, they are said to “commit an affray”....
Whoever commits an affray, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may ...
official act. Whoever, being or expecting to be a public servant, accepts or obtains, or agrees to accept, or attempts to obtain from any person, for ...
servant. Whoever accepts or obtains, or agrees to accept, or attempts to obtain, from any person, for himself or for any other person, any gratificati...
Whoever accepts or obtains, or agrees to accept or attempts to obtain, from any person, for himself or for any other person, any gratification whateve...
Punishment for abetment by public servant of offences defined in <a href="/ppc/162">section 162</a> and <a href="/ppc/163">163</a>...
concerned in proceeding or business transacted by such public servant. Whoever, being a public servant, accepts or obtains, or agrees to accept or att...
__ 2[(1)] Whoever, being a public servant, knowingly disobeys any direction of the law as to the way in which he is to conduct himself as such public ...
Whoever, being a public servant, and being, as such public servant, charged with the preparation or translation of any document, frames or translates ...
Whoever, being a public servant, and being legally bound as such public servant not to engage in trade, engages in trade, shall be punished with simpl...
Whoever, being a public servant, and being legally bound as such public servant, not to purchase or bid for certain property, purchases or bids for th...
Whoever pretends to hold any particular office as a public servant, knowing that he does not hold such office or falsely personates any other person h...
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Whoever absconds in order to avoid being served with a summons, notice or order proceeding from any public servant legally competent, as such public s...
thereof. Whoever in any manner intentionally prevents the serving on himself, or on any other person, of any summons, notice or order proceeding from ...
Non-attendance in obedience to an order from public servant. Whoever, being legally bound to attend in person or by an agent at a certain place and ti...
Whoever, being legally bound to produce or deliver up any document to any public servant, as such, intentionally omits so to produce or deliver up the...
Omission to give notice or information to public servant by person legally bound to give it. Whoever, being legally bound to give any notice or to fur...
Whoever, being legally bound to furnish information on any subject to any public servant, as such, furnishes, as true, information on the subject whic...
Whoever refuses to bind himself by an oath to state the truth, when required so to bind himself by a public servant legally competent to require that ...
Whoever, being legally bound to state the truth on any subject to any public servant, refuses to answer any question demanded of him touching that sub...
Whoever, refuses to sign any statement made by him, when required to sign that statement by a public servant legally competent to require that he shal...
administer an oath or affirmation. Whoever, being legally bound by an oath to state the truth on any subject to any public servant or other person aut...
another person...
Whoever offers any resistance to the taking of any property by the lawful authority of any public servant, knowing or having reason to believe that he...
Whoever intentionally obstructs any sale of property offered for sale by the lawful authority of any public servant, as such, shall be punished with i...
Whoever, at any sale of property held by the lawful authority of a public servant, as such, purchases or bids for any property on account of any perso...
Obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions.__ 1[(1)] Whoever voluntarily obstructs any public servant in the discharge of his public ...
Whoever, being bound by law to render or furnish assistance to any public servant in the execution of his public duty, intentionally omits to give suc...
Whoever, knowing that, by an order promulgated by a public servant lawfully empowered to promulgate such order, he is directed to abstain from a certa...
Threat of injury to public servant. Whoever holds out any threat of injury to any public servant, or to any person in whom he believes that public ser...
servant. Whoever holds out any threat of injury to any person for the purpose of inducing that person to refrain or desist from making a legal applica...
Whoever being legally bound by an oath or by an express provision of law to state the truth, or being bound by law to make a declaration upon any subj...
Fabricating false evidence. Whoever causes any circumstance to exist or makes any false entry in any book or record, or makes any document containing ...
Whoever intentionally gives false evidence in any stage of a judicial proceeding, or fabricates false evidence for the purpose of being used in any st...
if innocent person be thereby convicted and executed...
punishable with . Whoever gives or fabricates false evidence intending thereby to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause, any pe...
Whoever corruptly uses or attempts to uses as true or genuine evidence any evidence which he knows to be false or fabricated, shall be punished in the...
Whoever issues or signs any certificate required by law to be given or signed, or relating to any fact of which such certificate is by law admissible ...
Whoever corruptly uses or attempts to use any such certificate as a true certificate, knowing the same to be false in any material point, shall be pun...
Whoever, in any declaration made or subscribed by him, which declaration any Court of Justice, or any public servant or other person, is bound or auth...
Whoever corruptly uses or attempts to use as true any such declaration, knowing the same to be false in any material point, shall be punished in the s...
offender. Whoever, knowing or having reason to believe that an offence has been committed, causes any evidence of the commission of that offence to di...
Whoever, knowing or having reason to believe that an offence has been committed, intentionally omits to give any information respecting that offence w...
Whoever, knowing or having reason to believe that an offence has been committed, gives any information respecting that offence which he knows or belie...
Destruction of document to prevent its production as evidence. Whoever secretes or destroys any document which he may be lawfully compelled to produce...
Whoever falsely personates another, and in such assumed character makes any admission or statement, or confesses judgment, or causes any process to be...
or in execution. Whoever fraudulently removes, conceals, transfers or delivers to any person any property or any interest therein, intending thereby t...
Whoever fraudulently accepts, receives or claims any property or any interest therein, knowing that he has no right or rightful claim to such property...
Whoever fraudulently causes or suffers a decree or order to be passed against him at the suit of any person for a sum not due, or for a larger sum tha...
Dishonestly making false claim in Court. Whoever fraudulently or dishonestly, or with intent to injure or annoy any person, makes in a Court of Justic...
Whoever fraudulently obtains a decree or order against any person for a sum not due, or for a larger sum than is due, or for any property or interest ...
Whoever, with intent to cause injury to any person, institutes or causes to be instituted any criminal proceeding against that person, or falsely char...
Whenever an offence has been committed, whoever harbours or conceals a person whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the offender, with the inte...
Whoever accepts or attempts to obtain, or agrees to accept, any gratification for himself or any other person, or any restitution of property to himse...
Whoever gives or causes, or offers or agrees to give or cause, any gratification to any person, or to restore or cause the restoration of any property...
Whoever takes or agrees or consents to take any gratification under pretence or on account of helping any person to recover any moveable property of w...
been ordered__ Whenever any person convicted of or charged with an offence, being in lawful custody for that offence, escapes from such custody, or wh...
punishment or property from forfeiture. Whoever, being a public servant, knowingly disobeys any direction of the law as to the way in which he is to c...
punishment or property from forfeiture. Whoever, being a public servant, and being as such public servant, charged with the preparation of any record ...
law. Whoever, being a public servant, corruptly or maliciously makes or pronounces in any stage of a judicial proceeding, any report, order, verdict, ...
he is acting contrary to law. Whoever, being in any office which gives him legal authority to commit persons for trial or to confinement, or to keep p...
apprehend. Whoever, being a public servant, legally bound as such public servant to apprehend or to keep in confinement any person charged with or lia...
apprehend person under sentence or lawfully committed. Whoever, being a public servant, legally bound as such public servant to apprehend or to keep i...
Whoever, being a public servant legally bound as such public servant to keep in confinement any person charged with or convicted of any offence , negl...
Whoever intentional1y offers any resistance or illegal obstruction to the lawful apprehension of himself for any offence with which he is charged or o...
Whoever intentionally offers any resistance or illegal obstruction to the lawful apprehension of any other person for an offence, or rescues or attemp...
[Unlawful return from transportation.] Omitted by the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1972 (XII of 1972), <a href="/ppc/2">s. 2</a> and Sch....
Whoever, having accepted any conditional remission of punishment, knowingly violates any condition on which such remission was granted, shall be punis...
Whoever intentionally offers any insult, or causes any interruption to any public servant, while such public servant is sitting in any stage of a judi...
Whoever, by personation or otherwise, shall inten- tionally cause, or knowingly suffer himself to be returned, empanelled or sworn as a juryman or ass...
"Pakistan Coin". Illustrations (a) Cowries are not coin. (b) Lumps of unstamped copper, though used as money, are not coin. (c) Medals are not coin, i...
Counterfeiting coin. Whoever counterfeits or knowingly performs any part of the process of counterfeiting coin, shall be punished with imprisonment of...
Whoever counterfeits, or knowingly performs any part of the process of counterfeiting , shall be punished with , or with imprisonment of either descri...
Whoever makes or mends, or performs any part of the process of making or mending, or buys, sells or disposes of, any die or instrument, for the purpos...
Whoever makes or mends, or performs any part of the process of making or mending or buys, sells or disposes of, any die or instrument, for the purpose...
counterfeiting coin ; if Pakistan coin. Whoever is in possession of any instrument or material, for the purpose of using the same for counterfeiting c...
Whoever, being within [Pakistan], abets the counterfeiting of coin out of shall be punished in the same manner as if he abetted the counterfeiting of ...
Whoever imports into , or exports therefrom, any counterfeit coin, knowingly or having reason to believe that the same is counterfeit, shall be punish...
Whoever imports into , or exports therefrom, any counterfeit coin which he knows or has reason to believe to be a counterfeit of , shall be punished w...
Delivery of coin, possessed with knowledge that it is counterfeit. Whoever, having any counterfeit coin, which at the time when he became possessed of...
Whoever, having any counterfeit coin, which is a counterfeit of , and which, at the time when he became possessed of it, he knew to be a counterfeit o...
to be counterfeit. Whoever delivers to any other person as genuine, or attempts to induce any other person to receive as genuine, any counterfeit coin...
became possessed thereof. Whoever, fraudulently or with intent that fraud may be committed, is in possession of counterfeit coin, having known at the ...
became possessed thereof. Whoever, fraudulently or with intent that fraud may be committed is in possession of counterfeit coin, which is a counterfei...
from that fixed by law. Whoever, being employed in any mint lawfully established in , does any act, or omits what he is legally bound to do, with the ...
Unlawfully taking coining instrument from mint. Whoever, without lawful authority, takes out of any mint, lawfully established in 1[Pakistan], any coi...
Whoever fraudulently or dishonestly performs on any coin any operation which diminishes the weight or alters the composition of that coin, shall be pu...
Pakistan coin. Whoever fraudulently or dishonestly performs on , any operation which diminishes the weight or alters the composition of that coin, sha...
description. Whoever performs on any coin any operation which alters the appearance of that coin, with the intention that the said coin shall pass as ...
different description. Whoever performs on any operation which alters the appearance of that coin, with the intention that the said coin shall pass as...
Whoever, having coin in his possession with respect to which the offence defined in <a href="/ppc/246">section 246</a> and <a href="/ppc/248">248</a> ...
Whoever, having coin in his possession with respect to which the offence defined in <a href="/ppc/247">section 247</a> and <a href="/ppc/249">249</a> ...
possessed thereof. Whoever fraudulently or with intent that fraud may be committed, is in possession of coin with respect to which the offence defined...
to be altered. Whoever delivers to any other person as genuine or as a coin of a different description from what it is, or attempts to induce any pers...
Whoever counterfeits, or knowingly performs any part of the process of counterfeiting, any stamp issued by Government for the purpose of revenue, shal...
stamp. Whoever has in his possession any instrument or material for the purpose of being used, or knowing or having reason to believe that it is inten...
Whoever makes or performs any part of the process of making, or buys, or sells, or disposes of, any instrument for the purpose of being used, or knowi...
Whoever sells, or offers for sale, any stamp which he knows or has reason to believe to be a counterfeit of any stamp issued by Government for the pur...
Having possession of counterfeit Government stamp. Whoever has in his possession any stamp which he knows to be a counterfeit of any stamp issued by G...
Whoever uses as genuine any stamp, knowing it to be a counterfeit of any stamp issued by Government for the purpose of revenue, shall be punished with...
document a stamp used for it, with intent to cause loss to Government. Whoever fraudulently or with intent to cause loss to the Government, removes or...
Whoever fraudulently or with intent to cause loss to the Government, uses for any purpose a stamp issued by Government for the purpose of revenue, whi...
Whoever fraudulently or with intent to cause loss to Government, erases or removes from a stamp issued by Government for the purpose of revenue, any m...
Whoever fraudulently uses any instrument for weighing which he knows to be false, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term...
Whoever fraudulently uses any false weight or false measure of length or capacity, or fraudulently uses any weight or any measure of length or capacit...
Whoever is in possession of any instrument for weighing, or of any weight, or of any measure of length or capacity, which he knows to be false, and in...
Whoever makes, sells or disposes of any instrument for weighing, or any weight, or any measure of length or capacity which he knows to be false, in or...
A person is guilty of a public nuisance who does any act or is guilty of an illegal omission which causes any common injury, danger or annoyance to th...
Whoever unlawfully or negligently does any act which is, and which he knows or has reason to believe to be, likely to spread the infection of any dise...
Whoever malignantly does any act which is, and which he knows or has reason to believe to be, likely to spread the infection of any disease dangerous ...
Whoever knowingly disobeys any rule made and promulgated for putting any vessel into a state of quarantine, or for regulating the intercourse of vesse...
Whoever adulterates any article of food or drink, so as to make such article noxious as food or drink, intending to sell such article as food or drink...
Adulteration...
Sale...
Sale...
Whoever voluntarily corrupts or fouls the water of any public spring or reservoir, so as to render it less fit for the purpose for which it is ordinar...
Whoever voluntarily vitiates the atmosphere in any place so as to make it noxious to the health of persons in general dwelling or carrying on business...
Whoever drives any vehicle, or rides, on any public way in a manner so rash or negligent as to endanger human life, or to be likely to cause hurt or i...
Whoever navigates any vessel in a manner so rash or negligent as to endanger human life, or to be likely to cause hurt or injury to any other person, ...
Whoever exhibits any false light, mark or buoy, intending or knowing it to be likely that such exhibition will mislead any navigator, shall be punishe...
Whoever knowingly or negligently conveys, or causes to be conveyed for hire, any person by water in any vessel, when that vessel is in such a state or...
Whoever, by doing any act, or by omitting to take order with any property in his possession or under his charge, causes danger, obstruction or injury ...
Negligent conduct with respect to poisonous substance. Whoever does, with any poisonous substance, any act in a manner so rash or negligent as to enda...
Whoever does, with fire or any combustible matter, any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life, or to be likely to cause hurt or injury...
Whoever does, with any explosive substance, any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life, or to be likely to cause hurt or injury to any...
Whoever does, with any machinery, any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life or to be likely to cause hurt or injury to any other pers...
Whoever, in pulling down or repairing any building, knowingly or negligently omits to take such order with that building as is sufficient to guard aga...
Negligent conduct with respect to animal. Whoever knowingly or negligently omits to take such order with any animal in his possession as is sufficient...
Whoever commits a public nuisance in any case not otherwise punishable by this Code, shall be punished with fine which may extend to ....
Whoever repeats or continues a public nuisance, having been enjoined by any public servant who has lawful authority to issue such injunction not to re...
Sale, etc., of obscene books, etc. Whoever__ (a) sells, lets to hire, distributes, publicly exhibits or in any manner puts into circulation, or...
Sale, etc., of obscene objects to young person. Whoever sells, lets to hire, distributes, exhibits or circulates to any person under the age of twenty...
Obscene acts and songs. Whoever, to the annoyance of others, (a) does any obscene act in any public place, or (b) sings, recites or utters...
Whoever destroys, damages or defiles any place of worship, or any object held sacred by any class of persons with the intention of thereby insulting t...
Disturbing religious assembly. Whoever voluntarily causes disturbance to any assembly lawfully engaged in the performance of religious worship, or rel...
Whoever, with the intention of wounding the feelings of any person, or of insulting the religion of any person, or with the knowledge that the feeling...
with deliberate intent to wound religious feelings...
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Whoever, with the intention of causing death or with the intention of causing bodily injury to a person, by doing an act which in the ordinary course ...
Where a person, by doing anything which he intends or knows to be likely to cause death, causes death of any person whose death he neither intends nor...
Whoever commits qatl-e-amd shall, subject to the provisions...
Whoever commits qatl,__ (a) under ikrah-i-tam shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to twenty-five years but shall...
1) Proof of qatl-i-amd shall be in any of the following forms, namely:__ (a) the accused makes before a court competent to try the offence a...
In case of a qatl, the wali shall be__ (a) the heirs of the victim, according to his personal law ; and (b) the Government, if there is no heir....
Qatl-i-amd shall not be liable to qisas in the following cases, namely:__ (a) when an offender is a minor or insane: Provided that, where a ...
1) Qisas for qatl-i-amd shall not be enforced in the following cases, namely:__ Subs. by Act XLIII of 2016, s<sup>[3]</sup>(b) when any wali voluntari...
1) Where an offender guilty of qatl-i-amd is not liable to qisas under <a href="/ppc/306">section 306</a> or the qisas is not enforceable under clause...
Waiver-Afw (عفو) of qisas in qatl-i-amd.__ (1) In the case of qatl-i-amd, an adult sane wali may, at any time and without any compensation, waive his ...
1) In the case of qatl-i-amd, an adult sane wali may, at any time on accepting badal-i-sulh, compound his right of qisas: [Provided that a female shal...
Where a wali commits qatl-i-amd of a convict against whom the right of qisas has been waived under <a href="/ppc/309">section 309</a> or compounded un...
1) Where there is only one wali, he alone has the right of qisas in qatl-i-amd but, if there are more than one, the right of qisas vests in each of th...
1) Qisas in qatil-i-amd shall be executed by a functionary of the Government by causing death of the convict as the court may direct. (2) Qisas shall ...
Whoever, with intent to cause harm to the body or mind of any person, causes the death of that or of any other person by means of a weapon or an act w...
Whoever commits qatl shibh-i-amd shall be liable to diyat and may also be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend...
Where a person committing qatl-i-'amd or qatl shibh-i-'amd is an heir or a beneficiary under a will, he shall be debarred from succeeding to the estat...
Whoever, without any intention to cause the death of, or cause harm to, a person causes death of such person, either by mistake of act or by mistake o...
Whoever commits qatl-i-khata shall be liable to diyat: Provided that, where qatl-i-khata is committed by any rash or negligent act, other than rash or...
Whoever commits qatl-i-khata by rash or negligent driving shall, having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, in addition to diyat, be pu...
Qatl-bis-sabab.__ Whoever, without any intention to cause death of, or cause harm to, any person, does any unlawful act which becomes a cause for the ...
Whoever commits qatl-bis-sabab shall be liable to diyat....
1) The court shall, subject to the Injunctions of Islam as laid down in the Holy Quran and Sunnah and keeping in view the financial position of the co...
Whoever does any act with such intention or knowledge, and under such circumstances, that, if he by that act caused qatl, he would be guilty of qatl-i...
Attempt to commit suicide [omitted]...
Whoever shall have been habitually associated with any other or others for the purpose of committing robbery or child-stealing by means of or accompan...
Whoever is a thug, shall be punished with imprisonment for life and shall also be liable to fine....
care of it.__ Whoever being the father or mother of a child under the age of twelve years, or having the care of such child, shall expose or leave suc...
Whoever, by secretly burying or otherwise disposing of the dead body of a child whether such child dies before or after or during its birth, intention...
The diyat shall be disbursed among the heirs of the victim according to their respective shares in inheritance: Provided that, where an heir foregoes ...
1) The diyat may be made payable in lump sum or in instalments spread over a period of from the date of the final judgement. (2) Where a convict fails...
1) Whoever causes pain, harm, disease, infirmity or injury to any person or impairs, disables or dismembers any organ of the body or part thereof of a...
Whoever dismembers, amputates, severs any limb or organ of the body of another person is said to cause Itlaf-i-udw....
Whoever by doing any act with the intention of thereby causing hurt to any person, or with the knowledge that he is likely thereby to cause hurt to an...
Whoever destroys or permanently impairs the functioning, power or capacity of an organ of the body of another person, or causes permanent disfiguremen...
Whoever, by doing any act with the intention of causing hurt to any person, or with the knowledge that he is likely to cause hurt to any person, cause...
1) Whoever causes, on the head or face of any person, any hurt which does not amount to itlaf-i-udw or itlaf-i-salahiyyati-udw, is said to cause shajj...
Whoever causes a woman with child whose organs have not been formed, to miscarry, if such miscarriage is not caused in good faith for the purpose of s...
Whoever voluntarily obstructs any person so as to prevent that person from proceeding in any direction in which that person has a right to proceed, is...
Whoever wrongfully restrains any person in such a manner as to prevent that person from proceeding beyond certain circumscribing limits, is said “wron...
Whoever wrongfully restrains any person, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may e...
Whoever wrongfully confines any person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fin...
Whoever wrongfully confines any person for three days or more, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend t...
Whoever wrongfully confines any person for ten days, or more, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to...
Whoever keeps any person in wrongful confinement, knowing that a writ for the liberation of that person has been duly issued, shall be punished with i...
Wrongful confinement in secret. Whoever wrongfully confines any person in such manner as to indicate an intention that the confinement of such person ...
Whoever wrongfully confines any person for the purpose of extorting from the person confined, or from any person interested in the person confined, an...
Whoever wrongfully confines any person for the purpose of extorting from the person confined or any person interested in the person confined any confe...
A person is said to use force to another if he causes motion, change of motion, or cessation of motion to that other, or if he causes to any substance...
Whoever intentionally uses force to any person, without that person's consent, in order to the committing of any offence, or intending by the use of s...
Whoever makes any gesture, or any preparation intending or knowing it to be likely that such gesture or preparation will cause any person present to a...
Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any person otherwise than on grave and sudden provocation given by that person, shall be punished with impr...
Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any person being a public servant in the execution of his duty as such public servant, or with intent to pr...
Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any woman, intending to outrage or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby outrage her modesty, shall ...
provocation. Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any person, intending thereby to dishonour that person, otherwise than on grave and sudden pro...
person. Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any person in attempting to commit theft on any property which that person is then wearing or carry...
Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any person, in attempting wrongfully to confine that person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either ...
Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any person on grave and sudden provocation given by that person, shall be punished with simple imprisonment...
Kidnapping is of two kinds: kidnapping from , and kidnapping from lawful guardianship....
Whoever conveys any person beyond the limits of [Pakistan] without the consent of that person, or of some person legally authorised to consent on beha...
Whoever takes or entices any minor under fourteen years of age if a male, or under sixteen years of age if a female, or any person of unsound mind, ou...
Whoever by force compels, or by any deceitful means induces, any person to go from any place, is said to abduct that person. Omitted by the Criminal L...
Punishments for kidnapping. Whoever kidnaps any person from 1[Pakistan] or from lawful guardianship, shall be punished with imprisonment of either des...
Whoever kidnaps or abducts any person in order that such person may be murdered or may be so disposed of as to be put in danger of being murdered, sha...
Whoever kidnaps or abducts any person with intent to cause that person to be secretly and wrongfully confined, shall be punished with imprisonment of ...
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Whoever kidnaps or abducts any person in order that such person may be subjected, or may be so disposed of as to be put in danger of being subjected t...
Whoever, knowing that any person has been kidnapped or has been abducted, wrongfully conceals or confines such person, shall be punished in the same m...
persons. Whoever kidnaps or abducts any child under the age of ten years with the intention of taking dishonestly any moveable property from the perso...
Buying or disposing of any person as a slave. Whoever imports, exports, removes, buys, sells or disposes of any person as a slave, or accepts, receive...
Whoever habitually imports, exports, removes, buys, sells, traffics or deals in slaves, shall be punished with , or with imprisonment of either descri...
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(a) penetrates his penis, to any extend, into the vagina, mouth, urethra or anus of another person B or makes B to do so with A or any other person; o...
1) Whoever commits rape shall be punished with death or imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than ten years or more t...
Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with or with imprisonment of e...
Whoever, intending to take dishonestly any moveable property out of the possession of any person without that person's consent, moves that property in...
Whoever commits theft shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine or with both....
etc. Whoever commits theft in any building, tent or vessel, which building, tent or vessel is used as a human dwelling, or used for the custody of pro...
Whoever being a clerk or servant, or being employed in the capacity of a clerk or servant, commits theft in respect of any property in the possession ...
committing of the theft. Whoever commits theft, having made preparation for causing death, or hurt, or restraint, or fear of death, or of hurt, or of ...
Whoever intentionally puts any person in fear of any injury to that person, or to any other, and thereby dishonestly induces the person so put in fear...
Punishment for extortion. Whoever, commits extortion shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three ye...
Whoever, in order to the committing of extortion, puts any person in fear or attempts to put any person in fear, of any injury, shall be punished with...
Whoever, commits extortion by putting any person in fear of death or of grievous hurt to that person or to any other, shall be punished with imprisonm...
Whoever, in order to the committing of extortion puts or attempts to put any person in fear of death or of grievous hurt to that person or to any othe...
etc. Whoever commits extortion by putting any person in fear of an accusation against that person or any other, of having committed or attempted to co...
Whoever, in order to the committing of extortion, puts or attempts to put any person in fear of an accusation, against that person or any other, of ha...
In all robbery there is either theft or extortion. When theft is robbery. Theft is “robbery” if, in order to the committing of the theft, or in commit...
When five or more persons conjointly commit or attempt to commit a robbery, or where the whole number of persons conjointly committing or attempting t...
Whoever commits robbery shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which ten years, and shall also be liable to fine ; and, if the robber...
Whoever attempts to commit robbery shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable t...
If any person, in committing or in attempting to commit robbery, voluntarily causes hurt, such person, and any other person jointly Subs. by the Crimi...
Whoever commits dacoity shall be punished with [imprisonment for life], or with rigorous imprisonment for a term which ten years, and shall also be li...
If anyone of five or more persons, who are conjointly committing dacoity, commits murder in so committing dacoity, every one of those person shall be ...
If, at the time of committing robbery or dacoity, the offender uses any deadly weapon, or causes grievous hurt to any person, or attempts to cause dea...
If, at the time of attempting to commit robbery or dacoity, the offender is armed with any deadly weapon, the imprisonment with which such offender sh...
Whoever makes any preparation for committing dacoity, shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall...
Whoever, at any time after the passing of this Act, shall belong to a gang of persons associated for the purpose of habitually committing dacoity, sha...
Whoever, at any time after the passing of this Act, shall belong to any wandering or other gang of persons associated for the purpose of habitually co...
Whoever, at any time after the passing of this Act, shall be one of five or more persons assembled for the purpose of committing dacoity, shall be pun...
Whoever dishonestly misappropriates or converts to his own use any moveable property, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a ...
his death. Whoever dishonestly misappropriates or converts to his own use property, knowing that such property was in the possession of a deceased per...
Whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property or with any dominion over property, dishonestly misappropriates or converts to his own use that p...
Whoever commits criminal breach of trust shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to years, or with fine,...
Whoever, being entrusted with property as a carrier, wharfinger or warehouse-keeper, commits criminal breach of trust in respect of such property, sha...
Whoever, being a clerk or servant or employed as a clerk or servant, and being in any manner entrusted in such capacity with property, or with any dom...
Whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property, or with any dominion over property in his capacity of a public servant or in the way of his busi...
Property, the possession whereof has been transferred by theft, or by extortion, or by robbery, and property which has been criminally misappropriated...
Whoever dishonestly receives or retains any stolen property, knowing or having reason to believe the same to be stolen property, shall be punished wit...
Whoever dishonestly receives or retains any stolen property, the possession whereof he knows or has reason to believe to have been transferred by the ...
Whoever habitually receives or deals in property which he knows or has reason to believe to be stolen property, shall be punished with [imprisonment f...
Whoever voluntarily assists in concealing or disposing of or making away with property which he knows or has reason to believe to be stolen property, ...
Whoever, by deceiving any person, fraudulently or dishonest1y induces the person so deceived to deliver any property to any person, or to consent that...
Cheating by personation. A person is said to “cheat by personation” if he cheats by pretending to be some other person, or by knowingly substituting o...
Whoever cheats shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both....
offender is bound to protect. Whoever cheats with the knowledge that he is likely thereby to cause wrongful loss to a person whose interest in the tra...
Whoever cheats by personation shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to l[seven] years, or with fine, o...
Whoever cheats and thereby dishonestly induces the person deceived to deliver any property to any person, or to make, alter or destroy the whole or an...
distribution among creditors. Whoever dishonestly or fraudulently removes, conceals or delivers to any person, or transfers or causes to be transferre...
Whoever dishonestly or fraudulently prevents any debt or demand due to himself or to any other person from being made available according to law for p...
Dishonest or fraudulent execution of deed of transfer containing false statement of consideration. Whoever dishonestly or fraudulently signs, executes...
Whoever dishonestly or fraudulently conceals or removes any property of himself or any other person, or dishonestly or fraudulently assists in the con...
Whoever, with intent to cause, or, knowing that he is likely to cause, wrongful loss or damage to the public or to any person, causes the destruction ...
Whoever commits mischief shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine, or with ...
Whoever commits mischief and thereby causes loss or damage to the amount of fifty rupees or upwards, shall be punished with imprisonment of either des...
Whoever commits mischief by killing, poisoning, maiming or rendering useless any animal or animals of the value of ten rupees or upwards, shall be pun...
of fifty rupees. Whoever commits mischief by killing, poisoning, maiming or rendering useless, any elephant, camel, horse, mule, buffalo, bull, cow or...
Whoever commits mischief by doing any act which causes, or which he knows to be likely to cause, a diminution of the supply of water for agricultural ...
Whoever commits mischief by doing any act which renders or which he knows to be likely to render any public road, bridge, navigable river or navigable...
damage. Whoever commits mischief by doing any act which causes or which he knows to be likely to cause an inundation or an obstruction to any public d...
Whoever commits mischief by destroying or moving any light-house or other light used as a sea-mark, or any sea-mark or buoy or other thing placed as a...
Mischief by destroying or moving etc., a landmark fixed by public authority. Whoever commits mischief by destroying or moving any land-mark fixed by t...
one hundred or (in case of agricultural produce) ten rupees. Whoever commits mischief by fire or any explosive substance, intending to cause, or knowi...
Whoever commits mischief by fire or any explosive substance, intending to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause, the destructio...
tons burden. Whoever commits mischief to any decked vessel or any vessel of a burden of twenty tons or upwards, intending to destroy or render unsafe,...
explosive substance. Whoever commits, or attempts to commit, by fire or any explosive substance, such mischief as is described in the last preceding s...
commit theft, etc. Whoever intentionally runs any vessel aground or ashore, intending to commit theft of any property contained therein or to dishones...
Whoever commits mischief, having made preparation for causing to any person death, or hurt, or wrongful restraint, or fear of death, or of hurt, or of...
Whoever enters into or upon property in the possession of another with intent to commit an offence or to intimidate, insult or annoy any person in pos...
Whoever commits criminal trespass by entering into or remaining in any building, tent or vessel used as a human dwelling or any building used as a pla...
Whoever commits house-trespass having taken precautions to conceal such house-trespass from some person who has a right to exclude or eject the trespa...
Whoever commits lurking house-trespass after sunset and before sunrise, is said to commit “lurking housetrespass by night”....
A person is said to commit “housebreaking” who commits house-trespass if he effects his entrance into the house or any part of it in any of the six w...
Whoever commits house-breaking after sunset and before sunrise, is said to commit “housebreaking by night”....
Whoever commits criminal trespass shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine ...
Whoever commits house-trespass shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which m...
Whoever commits house-trespass in order to the committing of any offence punishable with death, shall be punished with , or with rigorous imprisonment...
House-trespass in order to commit offence punishable with imprisonment for life. Whoever commits house-trespass in order to the committing of any offe...
Whoever commits house-trespass in order to the committing of any offence punishable with imprisonment, shall be punished with imprisonment of either d...
Whoever commits house-trespass, having made preparation for causing hurt to any person or for assaulting any person, or for wrongfully restraining any...
Whoever commits lurking house-trespass or house-breaking, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two...
with imprisonment. Whoever commits lurking house-trespass or house-breaking, in order to the committing of any offence punishable with imprisonment, s...
wrongful restraint. Whoever commits lurking house-trespass, or house-breaking, having made preparation for causing hurt to any person, or for assaulti...
Whoever commits lurking house-trespass by night, or house-breaking by night, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term whic...
punishable with imprisonment. Whoever commits lurking house-trespass by night, or house- breaking by night, in order to the committing of any offence ...
wrongful restraint...
Hurt caused whilst committing lurking house-trespass or house-breaking. __ Whoever, whilst committing lurking house-trespass or house-breaking, causes...
qatl or hurt caused by one...
Whoever dishonestly or with intent to commit mischief breaks open or unfastens any closed receptacle which contains or which he believes to contain pr...
__ Whoever, being entrusted with any closed receptacle which contains or which he believes to contain property, without having authority to open the s...
Whoever makes any false document or part of a document, with intent to cause damage or injury, to the public or to any person, or to support any claim...
A person is said to make a false document Firstly.__ Who dishonestly or fraudulently makes, signs, seals or executes a document or part of a document,...
Whoever commits forgery shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both...
Whoever forges a document, purporting to be a record or proceeding of or in a Court of Justice, or a register of birth, baptism, marriage or burial, o...
Whoever forges a document which purports to be a valuable security or a will, or an authority to adopt a son, or which purports to give authority to a...
Whoever commits forgery, intending that the document forged shall be used for the purpose of cheating, shall be punished with imprisonment of either d...
Whoever commits forgery, intending that the document forged shall harm the reputation of any party, or knowing that it is likely to be used for that p...
A false document made wholly or in part by forgery is designated “a forged document”....
Whoever fraudulently or dishonestly uses as genuine any document which he knows or has reason to believe to be a forged document, shall be punished in...
punishable under <a href="/ppc/467">section 467</a>. Whoever makes or counterfeits any seal, plate or other instrument for making an impression, inten...
punishable otherwise. Whoever makes or counterfeits any seal, plate or other instrument for making an impression, intending that the same shall be use...
forged and intending to use it as genuine. Whoever has in his possession any document, knowing the same to be forged, and intending that the same shal...
<a href="/ppc/467">section 467</a>, or possessing counterfeit marked material. Whoever counterfeits upon, or in the substance of, any material, any de...
those described in <a href="/ppc/467">section 467</a>, or possessing counterfeit marked material. Whoever counterfeits upon, or in the substance of, a...
security. Whoever fraudulently or dishonestly, or with intent to cause damage or injury to the public or to any person, cancels, destroys or defaces, ...
Trade mark. A mark used for denoting that goods are the manufacture or merchandise of a particular person is called a trade mark, and for the purpose ...
Property mark. A mark used for denoting that moveable property belongs to a particular person is called a property mark....
Whoever marks any goods or any case, package or other receptacle containing goods, or uses any case, package or other receptacle with any mark thereon...
Whoever marks any moveable property or goods or any case, package or other receptacle containing moveable property or goods, or uses any case, package...
Whoever uses any false trade mark or any false property mark shall, unless he proves that he acted without intent to defraud, be punished with impriso...
Whoever counterfeits any trade mark or property mark used by any other person shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term whi...
Whoever counterfeits any property mark used by a public servant, or any mark used by a public servant to denote that any property has been manufacture...
property mark. Whoever makes or has in his possession any die, plate or other instrument for the purpose of counterfeiting a trade mark or property ma...
Whoever sells, or exposes, or has in possession for sale or any purpose of trade or manufacture, any goods or thing with a counterfeit trade mark or p...
Whoever makes any false mark upon any case, package or other receptacle containing goods, in a manner reasonably calculated to cause any public servan...
Whoever makes use of any such false mark in any manner prohibited by the last foregoing section shall, unless he proves that he acted without intent t...
Whoever removes, destroys, defaces or adds to any property mark, intending or knowing it to be likely that he may thereby cause injury to any person, ...
by the Workmen’s Breach of Contract (Repealing) Act, 1925 (III of 1925), <a href="/ppc/2">s. 2</a> and Sch....
Whoever, being bound by a lawful contract to attend on or to supply the wants of any person who, by reason of youth, or of unsoundness of mind, or of ...
expense.] Rep. by the Workmen's Breach of Contract (Repealing) Act, 1925 (Ill of 1925), <a href="/ppc/2">s. 2</a> and Sch...
by the Offences of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance, 1979 (VII of 1979), <a href="/ppc/19">s. 19</a> (w.e.f. the 10th day of February, 1979)....
Whoever, having a husband or wife living, marries in any case in which such marriage is void by reason of its taking place during the life of such hus...
marriage is contracted...
Whoever, dishonestly or with a fraudulent intention, goes through the ceremony of being married, knowing that he is not thereby lawfully married, shal...
by the Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance, 1979 (VII of 1979), <a href="/ppc/19">s. 19</a> (w.e.f the 10th day of February, 1979)....
the Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance, 1979 (VII of 1979), <a href="/ppc/19">s. 19</a> (w.e.f the10th day of February, 1979). 2[...
Whoever by words either spoken or intended to be read, or by signs or by visible representations, makes or publishes any imputation concerning any per...
Punishment for defamation...
Printing or engraving matter known to be defamatory...
Whoever sells or offers for sale any printed or engraved substance containing defamatory matter, knowing that it contains such matter, shall be punish...
Whoever threatens another with any injury to his person, reputation or property, or to the person or reputation of any one in whom that person is inte...
Whoever intentionally insults, and thereby gives provocation to any person, intending or knowing it to be likely that such provocation will cause him ...
Statement conducing to public mischief...
Whoever commits the offence of criminal intimidation shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two year...
Whoever commits the offence of criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication, or having taken precaution to conceal the name or abode of the per...
Divine displeasure. Whoever voluntarily causes or attempts to cause any person to do anything which that person is not legally bound to do or to omit ...
Insulting modesty or causing sexual harassment.__ Whoever,__ (i) intending to insult the modesty of any woman, utters any word, makes any sou...
Whoever, in a state of intoxication appears in any public place, or in any place which it is a trespass in him to enter, and there conducts himself in...
life or for a shorter term]. Whoever attempts to commit an offence punishable by this Code with [imprisonment for life], or imprisonment, or to cause ...
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shall derogate from the right of 8[the President] to grant pardons, reprieves, respites or remissions of punishment 3[:] 3[Provided that such right sh...
A person abets an offence within the meaning of this Code who, in , abets the commission of any act without and beyond [Pakistan] which would constitu...
When two or more persons agree to do, or cause to be done,__ (1) an illegal act, or (2) an act which is not illegal by illegal means, such an agreemen...
(1) Whoever is a party to a criminal conspiracy to commit an offence punishable with death, or rigorous imprisonment for a term of two years or upward...
without 8[Pakistan] conspires to commit any of the offences punishable by <a href="/ppc/121">section 121</a>, or to deprive 9[Pakistan of the sovereig...
its sovereignty.__ (1) Whoever, within or without Pakistan, with intent to influence, or knowing it to be likely that he will influence, any person or...
Government building, etc.__ Whoever deliberately defiles the National Flag of Pakistan, or unauthorisedly removes it from any building, premises, vehi...
Whoever by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or otherwise, brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contem...
by the Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance, 1979 (VII of 1979), <a href="/ppc/19">s. 19</a> (w.e.f. the 10th day of February, 1979)....
Punishment for defamation. Whoever defames another shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, ...
Promoting enmity between different groups, etc. Whoever,__ (a) by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation...
spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representations, or otherwise, induce or attempts to induce any student, or any class of students, or an...
Punishment for abetment of offences defined in <a href="/ppc/161">sections 161</a> and <a href="/ppc/165">165</a>. Whoever abets any offence punishabl...
punishable under <a href="/ppc/161">section 161</a> or <a href="/ppc/165">section 165</a> if he is induced, compelled, coerced, or intimidated to offe...
For the purposes of this Chapter__ (a) “candidate” means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election and includes a person...
1) Whoever__ (i) gives a gratification to any person with the object of inducing him or any other person to exercise any electoral right or o...
1) Whoever voluntarily interferes or attempts to interfere with the free exercise of any electoral right commits the offence of undue influence at an ...
Whoever at an election applies for a voting paper or votes in the name of any other person, whether living or dead, or in a fictitious name, or who ha...
Whoever commits the offence of bribery shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine...
Whoever commits the offence of undue influence or personation at an election shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term whic...
Whoever with intent to affect the result of an election makes or publishes any statement purporting to be a statement of fact which is false and which...
Whoever without the general or special authority in writing of a candidate incurs or authorizes expenses on account of the holding of any public meeti...
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believe that any persons are about to commit or have recently committed robbery or dacoity, harbours them or any of them, with the intention of facili...
[Definition of " harbour" in <a href="/ppc/212">sections 212</a>, 216 and 216 A.] Omitted by the Penal Code. (Amdt.) Act, 1942 (VIII of 1942), <a href...
otherwise provided for...
otherwise provided for. Whoever, in any case not provided for in <a href="/ppc/224">section 224</a> or <a href="/ppc/225">section 225</a> or in any ot...
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intent to involve him in any sexual activity or exposes him to obscene and sexually explicit material, document, a film, video or a computer generated...
<sup>[2]</sup>...
Ins. by Act X (Second Amdt.) of 2016, <a href="/ppc/4">s. 4</a>. ss.292B and 292C omitted by Act. XXXVII of 2023, s<sup>[13]</sup><sup>[4]</sup>...
Whoever keeps any office or place for the purpose of drawing any lottery [not being a *State lottery or a lottery authorized by the Provincial Governm...
Whoever offers, or undertakes to offer, in connection with any trade or business or sale of any commodity, any prize, reward or other similar consider...
insulting its religion or religious beliefs. Whoever, with deliberate and malicious intention of outraging the religious feelings of any class of , by...
Whoever wilfully defiles, damages or desecrates a copy of the Holy Quran or of an extract therefrom or uses it in any derogatory manner or for any unl...
Whoever by words, either spoken or written, or by visible representation, or by any imputation, innuendo, or insinuation, directly or indirectly, defi...
Use of derogatory remarks, etc., in respect of holy personages. Whoever by words, either spoken or written, or by visible representation, or by any im...
personages or places.–– (1) Any person of the Quadiani group or the Lahori group (who call themselves ‘Ahmadis’ or by any other name) who by words, ei...
propagating his faith. Any person of the Quadiani group or the Lahori group (who call themselves ‘Ahmadis’ or by any other name), who, directly or ind...
or swara. Whoever gives a female in marriage or otherwise compels her to enter into marriage, as badla-e-sulh, wanni, or swara or any other custom or ...
Cruelty to a child.__ Whoever willfully assaults, ill-treats, neglects, abandons or does an act of omission or commission, that results in or has, pot...
Whoever causes hurt by corrosive substance shall be punished with imprisonment for life or imprisonment of either description which shall not be less ...
Whoever, by doing any act with the intention of thereby causing hurt to any person, or with the knowledge that he is likely thereby to cause hurt to a...
1) Whoever causes on any part of the body of a person, other than the head or face, a hurt which leaves a mark of the wound, whether temporary or perm...
Whoever causes jurh in which the injury extends to the body cavity of the trunk, is said to cause jaifah....
Whoever by doing any act with the intention of causing hurt to a person or with the knowledge that he is likely to cause hurt to such person, causes j...
1) Whoever causes jurh which does not amount to jaifah, is said to cause ghayr-jaifah. (2) The following are the kinds of ghayr-jaifah, namely: (a...
Whoever by doing any act with the intention of causing hurt to any person, or with the knowledge that he is likely to cause hurt to any person, causes...
Whoever causes hurt by rash or negligent driving shall be liable to arsh or daman specified for the kind of hurt caused and may also be punished with ...
1) Whoever causes hurt by rash or negligent act, other than rash or negligent driving, shall be liable to arsh or daman specified for the kind of hurt...
Whoever causes hurt by mistake (Khata) shall be liable to arsh or daman specified for the kind of hurt caused....
Whoever administers to, or causes to be taken by, any person, any poison or any stupefying, intoxicating or unwholesome drug, or such other thing with...
Whoever causes hurt for the purpose of extorting from the sufferer or any person interested in the sufferer any confession or any information which ma...
1) Whoever causes hurt, not mentioned hereinbefore, which endangers life or which causes the sufferer is to remain in severe bodily pain for twenty da...
Hurt shall not be liable to qisas in the following cases, namely:__ (a) when the offender is a minor or insane: Provided that he shall be liable t...
1) The qisas for a hurt shall not be enforced in the following cases, namely :__ (a) when the offender dies before execution of qisas ; (b) when the o...
In the case of hurt the wali shall be– (a) the victim: Provided that, if the victim is a minor or insane, his right of qisas shall be exercise...
(1) Qisas shall be executed in public by an authorized medical officer who shall before such execution examine the offender and take due care so as to...
The arsh for causing itlaf of an organ which is found singly in a human body shall be equivalent to the value of diyat. Explanation.__ Nose and tongue...
The arsh for causing itlaf of organs found in a human body in pairs shall be equivalent to the value of diyat and if itlaf is caused to one of such or...
The arsh for causing itlaf of organs found in a human body in a set of four shall be equal to__ (a) one-fourth of the diyat, if the itlaf is one o...
1) The arsh for causing itlaf of a finger of a hand or foot shall be one- tenth of the diyat. (2) The arsh for causing itlaf of a joint of a finger...
The arsh for causing itlaf of a tooth, other than a milk tooth shall be one-twentieth of the diyat. Explanation.__ The impairment of the portion of a ...
1) Whoever uproots__ (a) all the hair of the head, beard, mustaches, eyebrow, eyelashes or any other part of the body shall be liable to arsh equa...
1) Where an accused causes more than one hurt, he shall be liable to arsh specified for each hurt separately: Provided that, where__ (a) hurt is c...
1) The arsh may be made payable in a lump sum or in instalments spread over a period of from the date of the final judgement. (2) Where a convict fail...
1) The value of daman may be determined by the court keeping in view. (a) the expenses incurred on the treatment of victom ; (b) loss or...
The arsh or daman shall be payable to the victim or, if the victim dies, to his heirs according to their respective shares in inheritance....
Whoever causes isqat-i-haml shall be liable to punishment as ta'zir__ Subs, ins & added by Act XV of 2010, ss.3-4 (w.e.f. 3-10-2007). years, if isqat-...
Whoever causes a woman with child some of whose limbs or organs have been formed to miscarry, if such miscarriage is not caused in good faith for the ...
Whoever causes Isqat-i-janin shall be liable to__ (a) one-twentieth of the diyat if the child is born dead; (b) full diyat if th...
A sentence of death awarded by way of qisas or ta’zir, or a sentence of qisas awarded for causing hurt, shall not be executed, unless it is confirmed ...
1) Subject to the provisions...
In the interpretation and application of the provisions of this Chapter, and in respect of matter ancillary or akin thereto, the court shall be guided...
1[(1)] The Government may, in consultation with the Council of Islamic Ideology, by notification in the official Gazette, make such rules as it may co...
1) Nothing in this Chapter, except <a href="/ppc/309">sections 309</a>, 310 and 338E, shall apply to cases pending before any court immediately before...
assaults or uses criminal force to any women and strips her of her clothes and, in that condition, exposes Subs. by Ord. No. 86 of 2002, s.2 and Sch-I...
to 462M offences.__ Any person said to commit or to have committed the offence as mentioned in <a href="/ppc/462H">section 462H</a> to 462M shall also...
Kidnapping or abducting a person under the 4[age of fourteen]. Whoever kidnaps or abducts any person under the 4[age of fourteen] in order that such p...
kidnaps or abducts any woman with intent that she may be compelled, or knowing it to be likely that she will be compelled, to marry any person against...
Procuration of minor girl. Whoever, by any means whatsoever, induces any minor girl under the age of eighteen years to go from any place or to do any ...
Importation of girl from foreign country. Whoever imports into Pakistan from any country outside Pakistan any girl under the age of twenty-one years w...
Kidnapping or abducting in order to subject person to unnatural lust. Whoever kidnaps or abducts any person in order that such person may be subjected...
This section was amended by the Indian Penal Code (Arndt.) Act, 1923 (20 of 1923), <a href="/ppc/2">s. 2</a>. S<a href="/ppc/366A">s. 366A</a> and <a ...
otherwise disposes of any person with intent that such person shall at any time be employed or used for the purpose of prostitution or illicit interco...
Whoever buys, hires or otherwise obtains possession of any person with intent that such person shall at any time be employed or used for the purpose o...
or acting in furtherance of a common intention. each of those persons shall be guilty of the offence of gang rape and shall be punished with death or ...
Disclosure of identity of victim of rape, etc.__ (1) Whoever prints or publishes name or any matter which may make known identity of victim, against w...
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coerces any person to engage in, or assist any other person to engage in fondling, stroking, caressing, exhibitionism, voyeurism or any obscene or sex...
Whoever commits the offence...
motor vehicle, including motor-cycle, scooter and Tractor shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to sev...
Whoever unlawfully, by the use or show of force or by threats of any kind, seizes, or exercises control of, an aircraft is said to commit hijacking. S...
Whoever commits, or conspires or attempts to commit, or abets the commission of, hijacking shall be punished with death or imprisonment for life, and ...
Whoever knowingly harbours any person whom he knows or has reason to believe to be a person who is about to commit or has committed or abetted an offe...
In this chapter, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context: (a) "distribution" means the activity of transporting petroleum through...
1) Any person who willfully does tampering or attempts to do tampering or abets in tampering with a facility, installation or main pipeline for transm...
1) Any person who wilfully does tampering or attempts to do tampering or abets in tampering with any auxiliary or distribution pipeline of petroleum n...
Any person or individual being the domestic consumer who does tampering or abets in tampering with any gas meter regulator, meter index or gas connect...
Any person or individual being industrial or commercial consumer who does tampering or abets in tampering with any gas meter, regulator, meter index o...
Any person who damages or destructs any transmission or transportation lines by an act of subversion by explosive material or in any other manner so a...
In this Chapter, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,__ (a) "Court" means the court of sessions designated as Elect...
1) Any person who,— (a) dishonestly taps, makes or causes to be made any connection with overhead, underground or under water lines or cables, or s...
who,__ (a) dishonestly taps, makes or causes to be made any connection with overhead, underground or under water lines or cables, or service lines, el...
etc.__ Any person being the domestic consumer who,__ (a) unauthorizedly connects any electric meter with any electric line through which electricit...
commercial, etc.— Any person being industrial or commercial who,__ (a) unauthorizedly connects any electric meter with any electric line through wh...
consumer, etc.__ Any person being agricultural consumer who,__ (a) unauthorizedly connects any electric meter with any electric line through which...
lines, electric meter etc.__ Any person who damages, destroys or destruct any transmission lines, distribution lines, electric meter, apparatus, equip...
to 462M offences.__ Any person said to commit or to have committed the offence as mentioned in <a href="/ppc/462H">section 462H</a> to 462M shall also...
1) The Court shall try an offence punishable under this Chapter. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 or...
The provisions...
Of Trade, Property and Other Marks...
performs any part of the process of 2counterfeiting, any currency-note or bank-note, shall be punished with 3[imprisonment for life], or with imprison...
Whoever sells to, or buys or receives from, any other person, or otherwise traffics in or uses as genuine, any forged or counterfeit currency-note or ...
Whoever has in his possession any 4forged or counterfeit currency-note or bank-note, knowing or having reason to believe the same to be forged or coun...
currency-notes or bank-notes. Whoever makes, or performs any part of the process of making, or buys or sells or disposes of, or has in his possession,...
Making or using documents resembling currency-notes or bank-notes. __ (1) Whoever makes, or causes to be made, or uses for any purpose whatsoever, or ...
re-payment of a loan or fulfillment of an obligation which is dishonoured on presentation, shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to t...
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Cohabitation caused by a man deceitfully inducing a belief of lawful marriage.__ Every man who deceitfully causes any woman who is not lawfully marrie...
or entices away any woman with intent that she may have illicit intercourse with any person, or conceals or detains with that intent any woman, shall ...
1) A man, and woman not married to each other are said to commit fornication if they willfully have sexual intercourse with one another. (2) Whoever c...
Whoever brings or levels or gives evidence of false charge of fornication against any person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may...
whoever by deceitful or illegal means deprives any woman from inheriting any movable or immovable property at the time of opening of succession shall ...
whoever coerces or in any manner whatsoever compels a woman to enter into marriage shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a ter...
Whoever compels or arranges or facilitates the marriage of a woman with the Holy Quran shall be punished with imprisonment of either description which...