Uttering words or sounds
or making gestures or
exhibiting any object intending to
insult the modesty of a woman or
intruding upon the privacy of a
woman.
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The woman whom it is intended
to insult or whose privacy is
intruded upon.]
1[(2A) Where an offence under Chapter XVI of the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860 (Act XLV of
1860), has been committed in the name or on the pretext of karo kari, siyah kari or similar other
customs or practices, such offence may be waived or compounded subject to such conditions as the
Court may deem fit to impose with the consent of the parties having regard to the facts and
circumstances of the case.]
(3) When any offence is compoundable under this section, the abetment of such offence or an
attempt to commit such offence (when such attempt is itself an offence) may be compounded
in like manner.
(4) When the person who would otherwise be competent to compound an offence under this
section is 2[under the age of eighteen years or is] an idiot or a lunatic, any person competent to
contract on his behalf may 3[with the permission of the Court] compound such offence.
4[(5) when the accused has been convicted and an appeal is pending, no composition for the
offence shall be allowed without the leave of the Court before which the appeal is to be heard.]
3[(5A) A High Court acting in the exercise of its powers of revision under section 439 5[,and a
Court of Session so acting under section 439A,] may allow any person to compound any offence
which he is competent to compound under this section.]
(6) The composition of an offence under this section shall have the effect of an acquittal of the
accused 2[with whom the offence has been compounded.]
6[(7) No offence shall be waived or compounded save as provided by this section and section
311 of Pakistan Penal Code, 1860 (Act V of 1860).]
1 Ins. by Act I of 2005, s.14.
2 Subs. for “a minor” by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amdt.) Act, 1923, (18 of 1923), s. 90.
3 Ins. ibid.
4 Subs. by the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1972 (12 of 1972), s.2 and Sch., for the original subsection (5).
5 Ins. ibid.
6 Subs. by Act XLIII of 2016, s.8.
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