(x) Offences in respect of Naval Custody
60. Irregularity in connection with custody. Every person subject to this Ordinance who,__
(a) unnecessarily detains a person in custody without bringing him to trial, or fails to bring his
case before the proper authority for investigation ; or
(b) having committed a person to naval custody falls without reasonable cause to deliver at
the time of such committal, or as soon as practicable, and in any case within fortyeight
hours thereafter, to the officer or other person into whose custody the person arrested is
committed, an account in writing, signed by himself of the offence with which the person
so committed is charged,
shall be liable to suffer short imprisonment.
61. Escape from custody. Every person subject to this Ordinance, who, being in lawful custody,
escapes or attempts to escape, shall be liable to suffer short imprisonment.
62. Permitting escape of person in custody. Every person subject to this Ordinance who,__
(a) when in command of a guard, piquet, patrol or post, releases without proper authority,
whether, wilfully or without reasonable excuse, any person committed to his charge, or
refuses to receive any prisoner or person so committed, or
(b) wilfully or without reasonable excuse allows to escape any person who is committed to his
charge, or whom it is his duty to keep or guard,
shall be liable, if he has acted wilfully, to suffer long imprisonment, and if he has not acted wilfully, to
suffer short imprisonment.
(xi) Offences relating to Property
63. Theft and dishonest misappropriation, etc. Every person subject to this Ordinance who
commits any of the following offences, that is to say__
(a) commits theft 1[, not liable to hadd under any Islamic law,] of any property belonging to
the Government, or to any service mess, band or institution or to any person subject to
service law, or serving with or attached to the navy ;
1 Ins. by the Pakistan Navy (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1984 (37 of 1984), s.6.
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