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    The Pakistan Penal Code is the penal code for all offences charged in Pakistan. It was originally prepared in 1860 as the Indian Penal Code under British rule in India. After independence in 1947, Pakistan inherited the same code and has since amended it. The code is now a mixture of Islamic and English law. It applies to offences committed within Pakistan as well as by Pakistani citizens abroad. Punishments under the code include death, imprisonment, fines, and Islamic punishments like qisas (retribution) and diyat (pre-specified compensation).

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    The Pakistan Penal Code is the penal code for all offences charged in Pakistan. It was originally prepared in 1860 as the Indian Penal Code under British rule in India. After independence in 1947, Pakistan inherited the same code and has since amended it. The code is now a mixture of Islamic and English law. It applies to offences committed within Pakistan as well as by Pakistani citizens abroad. Punishments under the code include death, imprisonment, fines, and Islamic punishments like qisas (retribution) and diyat (pre-specified compensation).

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    This is the book of punishments of different crime.

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    The Pakistan Penal Code is the penal code for all offences charged in Pakistan. It was originally prepared in 1860 as the Indian Penal Code under British rule in India. After independence in 1947, Pakistan inherited the same code and has since amended it. The code is now a mixture of Islamic and English law. It applies to offences committed within Pakistan as well as by Pakistani citizens abroad. Punishments under the code include death, imprisonment, fines, and Islamic punishments like qisas (retribution) and diyat (pre-specified compensation).

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    Pakistan Penal Code

    The Pakistan Penal Code (Urdu: ‫ ;مجموعہ تعزیرات پاکستان‬Majmū'ah-yi ta'zīrāt-i Pākistān),
    abbreviated as PPC, is a penal code for all offences charged in Pakistan. It was originally prepared
    by Lord Macaulay with a great consultation in 1860 on the behalf of the Government of India as
    the Indian Penal Code. After the independence in 1947, Pakistan inherited the same code and
    subsequently after several amendments by different governments, in Pakistan it is now a mixture of
    Islamic and English Law. Presently, the Pakistan Penal Code is still in effect and can be amended by
    the Senate of Pakistan.[1]

    History
    The draft of the (British) Indian Penal Code was prepared by the First Law Commission and it was
    chaired by Lord Macaulay. Its basis is the law of England freed from superfluities, technicalities and
    local peculiarities. Suggestions were also derived from the French Penal Code and from
    Livingstone's Code of Louisiana. The draft underwent a very careful revision at the hands of
    Sir Barnes Peacock, Chief Justice, and puisne Judges of the Calcutta Supreme Court who were
    members of the Legislative Council, and was passed into law in 1860, unfortunately Macaulay did
    not survive to see his masterpiece enacted into a law.[2]
    Though it is principally the work of a man who had hardly held a brief, and whose time was devoted
    to politics and literature, it was universally acknowledged to be a monument of codification and an
    everlasting memorial to the high juristic attainments of its distinguished author. For example, even
    cyber crimes can be punished under the code.

    Jurisdiction
    Section 1. Title and extent of operation of the Code. This Act shall be called the Pakistan Penal
    Code, and shall take effect throughout Pakistan.

     Section 4
    The provisions of this Code apply also to any offence committed by:-

     (1) any citizen of Pakistan or any person in the service of Pakistan in any place without and
    beyond Pakistan;
     (4) any person on any ship or aircraft registered in Pakistan wherever it may be.
    Explanation: In this section the word "offence" includes every act committed outside Pakistan which,
    if committed in Pakistan, would be punishable under this Code. Extension of Code to extraterritorial
    offences.

    Punishments
     Section 53.
    The punishments to which offenders are liable under the provisions of this Code are:

     First, Qisas ("retribution");


     Second, Diyat;
     Third, Arsh− (Pre-specified Compensation);
     Fourth, Daman (Compensation determined by court to be paid by the offender to the victim for
    causing hurt not liable to Arsh);
     Fifth, Ta'zir (punishment, usually corporal, that can be administered at the discretion of a judge)
     Sixth, Death;
     Seventh, Imprisonment for life;
     Eighth, Imprisonment which is of two descriptions, namely:--

    1. Rigorous (i.e., with hard labour);


    2. Simple;

     Ninth, Forfeiture of property;


     Tenth, Fine
    First five punishments are added by amendments and are considered Islamic Punishments, and
    very few are sentenced to these punishments so far. Anyone who is sentenced to first five
    punishments can appeal to Federal Shariat court.

    Note: This copy of Pakistan Penal Code 1860 has been printed for the purpose of learning.

    Salman Ali Shinwari

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