Illustrations
A is charged with the murder of B. This is equivalent to a statement .that As act fell
within the definition of murder given in Sections 299 and 300 of the Pakistan Penal Code
that it did not fall within any of the general exceptions of the same Code and that It did not
fall within any of the five exceptions to Section 300; or that if it did fall within Exception 1,
one or other of the three provisos to that exception apply to it.
(b) A is charged, under Section 3?-6 of the Pakistan Penal Code with voluntarily causing
grievous hurt to B by means of an instrument for shooting. This is equivalent to a
statement that the case was not provided for by Section 335 of the Pakistan Penal Code,
and that the general exceptions did not apply to it.
(c) A is accused of murder, cheating, theft, extortion, adultery or criminal intimidation or
using a false property-mark. The charge may state that A committed murder or cheating or
theft or extortion, or adultery, or criminal; intimidation or that he use a false property-mark,
without referenced the definitions to those crimes contained in the Pakistan Penal Code
but the sections, under which, the offence is punishable must, in each instance, be
referred to in the charge.
(d) A is charged under Section 184 of the Pakistan Penal Code with intentionally
obstructing a sale of property offered, for sale by the lawful authority of a public servant.
The charge should be in those words.