21G. Trial of Offences. All offences under this Act shall be tried by the Antiterrorism Court
established under this Act 1[:]
1[Provided that the Courts of Zila Qazi or Azafi Zila Qazi established under the Shariah Nizame
Adl Regulation, 2009 shall deemed to be the court and shall try all cases so assigned to them by the
administrative judge designated under subsection (2) or subsection (4) of section 13, as the case
may be.]
21H. Conditional admissibility of confession. Notwithstanding anything contained in the
QanooneShandat, 1984 (President’s Order No. 10 of 1984) or any other law for the time being in
force, where in any court proceedings held under this Act the evidence (which includes circumstantial
and other evidence) produced raises the presumption that there is a reasonable probability that the
accused has committed the offence, any confession made by the accused during investigation without
being compelled, before a police officer not below the rank of a Distt. Superintendent of Police, may
be admissible in evidence against him, if the Court so deems fit:
Provided that the Distt. Superintendent of Police before recording any such confession, had
explained to the person making it that he is not bound to make a confession and that if he does so it
may be used as evidence against him and that no Distt. Superintendent of Police has recorded such
confession unless, upon questioning the person making it, the Disst. Superintendent of Police had
reason to believe that it was made voluntarily; and that when he recorded the confession, he made a
memorandum at the foot of such record to the following effect;
I have explained to (....name...), that he is not bound to make a confession and that, if he does so,
any confession he may make may be used as evidence against him and 1 believe that confession was
voluntarily made. It was taken in may presence, and was read over to the person making it and
admitted by him to be correct, and it contains a full and true account of the statement made by him”.
(Signed)
“Distt. Superintendent of Police.”
21I. Aid an abetment. Whoever aids or abets any offence, under this Act shall be punishable
with the maximum term of same imprisonment provided for the offence or the fine provided for such
offence or with both.
21J. Harbouring. — (1) A person commits an offence if he harbours any person who has
committed an offence under this Act.
(2) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable on conviction to
punishment as provided in sections 216 and 216A of the Pakistan Penal Code.
1 Subs. & added by the Antiterrorism (Second Amdt.) Act, 2013 (XX of 2013), s.18.
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