498. Enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent a married woman: [Rep. by the Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance, Vll of 1979, S. 19]. CHAPTER XXI OF DEFAMATION 499. Defamation: Whoever by words either spoken or intended to be read, or by signs or by visible representations, makes or publishes any imputation concerning any person intending to harm, or knowing or having reason to believe that such imputation will harm, the reputation of such person, is said except in the cases hereinafter excepted, to defame that Proviso: [Omitted by the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act JV of 1986.] Explanation 1: It may amount to defamation to impute anything to a deceased person, if the jmputator would harm the reputation of that person if living, and is intended to be hurtful to the feelings of his family or other near relatives. Explanation 2: It may amount to defamation to make an imputation concerning a company or an association or collection of persons as such. Explanation 3: An imputation in the form of an alternative or expressed ironically, may amount to defamation. Explanation 4: No imputation is said to harm a person's reputation, unless that imputation directly or indirectly, in the estimation of others, lowers the moral or intellectual character of that person, or lowers the character of that person in respect of his caste or of his calling or lowers the credit of that person, or causes it to be believed that the body of that person is in a loathsome state, or in a state generally considered a disgraceful. Illustration (a) A says: Z is an honest man, he never state B's watch, intending to cause it to be believed that Z did steal 6's watch., This is defamation, unless it fall within one of the exceptions. (£)) A is asked who stole B's watch. A points to Z, intending to cause it to be believed that Z stole B's watch. This is defamation unless it falls within one of the exceptions. (c) A draws a picture of Z running away with B's watch, intending it to be believed that Z stole B's watch. This is defamation, unless it falls within one of the exceptions. First Exception-Imputation of truth which public good requires to be made or published: It is not defamation to impute anything which is true concerning any person, if

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