Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Pakistan Penal Code (Urdu: مجموعہ تعزیرات پاکستان; Majmū'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 behalf of the Government of British India as the Indian Penal Code .
The Hudud Ordinances are laws in Pakistan enacted in 1979 as part of the Islamization of Pakistan by Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the sixth president of Pakistan.It replaced parts of the British-era Pakistan Penal Code, adding new criminal offences of adultery and fornication, and new punishments of whipping, amputation, and stoning to death.
This Code draws its origin from the Indian Penal Code, after several amendments from different governments in Pakistan, the Code is now a mixture of Islamic and English law. [16] This Code provides explanations, definition, and punishment for all type of offences.
Religion-related offences on the territory of modern Pakistan were first codified by the British Raj in 1860, and were expanded in 1927. [34] Pakistan inherited that legislation when it gained independence after the partition of India in 1947. [34] Several sections of Pakistan's Penal Code comprise its blasphemy laws. [35]
The Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) in earlier form included the offence of "culpable homicide" for acts of homicide resulting from the infliction of intentional harm upon a person: §299 Culpable homicide §301 Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person whose death was intended
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pakistani_Penal_Code&oldid=1150347944"
The bill returned a number of offences from the Zina Ordinance to the Pakistan Penal Code, where they had been before 1979, and created an entirely new set of procedures governing the prosecution of the offences of adultery and fornication. Whipping and amputation were removed as punishments.
The judiciary of Pakistan is the national system of courts that maintains the law and order in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.Pakistan uses a common law system, which was introduced during the colonial era, influenced by local medieval judicial systems based on religious and cultural practices.