Pakistan law · 1860
Pakistan Penal Code, 1860
The principal federal criminal code defining offences, criminal responsibility, exceptions, and punishments.
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The Pakistan Penal Code defines general criminal liability and a wide range of offences against the State, public order, the human body, property, documents, reputation, and other protected interests.
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Structure
Table of contents and important chapters
General explanations and punishments
Definitions, joint liability, punishments, and rules applying throughout the Code.
General exceptions
Mistake, judicial acts, accident, necessity, infancy, unsoundness of mind, consent, and private defence.
Abetment and criminal conspiracy
Liability for encouraging, assisting, agreeing to, or facilitating offences.
State, public order, and public justice
Offences affecting the State, public tranquillity, public servants, elections, and administration of justice.
Offences affecting the human body
Qatl, hurt, wrongful restraint, kidnapping, sexual offences, and corrosive-substance violence.
Offences against property
Theft, extortion, robbery, criminal breach of trust, cheating, mischief, and trespass.
Documents, reputation, and other offences
Forgery, false documents, property marks, marriage offences, defamation, intimidation, and attempts.
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Important Articles and sections
Punishment of qatl-i-amd
The punishments available for intentional homicide, subject to the Qisas and Diyat framework.
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Pakistan Code marks the publication “Under Review”; verify later amendments in the Gazette of Pakistan.
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