71. Disgraceful conduct. Every person subject to this Ordinance who is guilty of any disgraceful
conduct of a cruel, indecent or unnatural kind, shall be liable to suffer short imprisonment.
72. False accusation. Every person subject to this Ordinance who,__
(a) makes a false accusation 1[, not amounting to qazf,] against any person subject to this
Ordinance knowing or having reason to believe such accusation to be false ; or
(b) in making a complaint under section 23 makes any statement affecting the character of
any person subject to this Ordinance, 1[not amounting to qazf,] knowing or having reason
to believe such statement to be false ; or knowingly and wilfully suppresses any material
facts,
shall be liable to suffer short imprisonment.
73. Offences in relation to courtsmartial 2[or court of appeals.]__(1) Every person subject to
this Ordinance who,__
(a) having been duly summoned or ordered to attend before a courtmartial 3[or court of
appeals], fails to comply with the summons or order;
(b) refuses to take an oath or make an affirmation when dulyrequired by a courtmartial to
do so ;
(c) refuses to produce any document in his custody or under his control which a courtmartial
has lawfully required him to produce ;
(d) when a witness, refuses to answer any question which a courtmartial has lawfully
required him to answer ;
(e) wilfully insults any person, being a member of a courtmartial 3[or court of appeals] or a
witness or any other person whose duty it is to attend on or before the court, while that
person is acting as a member thereof or is so attending, or while that person is going to or
returning from the proceedings of the court ; or
(f) wilfully interrupts the proceedings of a courtmartial 3[or court of appeals], or otherwise
misbehaves before the court,
shall be liable to suffer short imprisonment.
1 Ins. by the Pakistan Navy (Amdt.), Ordinance, 1984 (37 of 1984), s.7.
2 Added ibid., s. 8.
3 Ins. ibid.
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