term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred
rupees, or with both.
492. Breach of contract to serve at distant place to which servant is conveyed at masters
expense: [Rep. by the Workman's Breach of Contract (Repeating) Act, HI of 1925, Sec. 2
and Schedule].
CHAPTER XX
OF OFFENCES RELATING
TO MARRIAGE
493. Cohabitation caused by a man deceitfully inducing a belief of lawful marriage: [Rep.
by the Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance, VH of 1979, S. 19].
494. Marrying again during lifetime of husband or wife: Whoever, having a husband or
wife living, marries in any case in which, such marriage is void by reason of its taking
place during the life of such husband or wife, shall be punished with imprisonment of
either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to
fine.
Exception: This Section does not extend to any person, whose marriage with such
husband or wife has been declared void by a Court of competent jurisdiction,
nor to any person who contracts a marriage during the life of a former husband or wife, if
such husband or wife, at the time of the subsequent marriage, shall have been continually
absent from such person for the space of seven years, and shall not have been heard of
by such person as being alive within that time provided the person contracting such
subsequent marriage shall, before such marriage takes place, inform the person with
whom such marriage is contracted of the real state of facts so far as the same are within
his or her knowledge.
495. Same offence with concealment of former marriage from person with whom
subsequent marriage is contracted : Whoever commits the offence defined in the last
preceding section having concealed from the person with whom the subsequent marriage
is contracted, the fact of the former marriage, shall be punished with imprisonment of
either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
496. Marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage:
Whoever, dishonestly or with a fraudulent intention, goes through the ceremony of being
married, knowing that he is not thereby lawfully married, shall be punished with
imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall
be liable to fine.
497. Adultery: [Rep. by the Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance, VII of
1979, S. 19].