THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1898
(V OF 1898)
[22nd March, 1898]
An Act to consolidate and amend the law
relating to the Criminal Procedure
110. Security for good behaviour from habitual
offenders. Whenever a [1][Magistrate
of the first class] receives information that any person within the local
limits of his jurisdiction--
(a) is by habit a robber,
house-breaker, thief, or forger, or
(b) is by habit receiver of
stolen property knowing the same to have been stolen, or
(c) habitually protects or
harbours thieves or aids in the concealment or disposal of stolen property, or
(d) habitually commits, or
attempts to commit, or abets the commission of, the offence of kidnapping,
abduction, extortion, cheating or mischief, or any offence punishable under
Chapter XII of the Pakistan Penal Code, or under Section 489-A, Section 489-B,
Section 489-C or Section 489-D of that Code, or
(e) habitually commits, or
attempts to commit, or abets the commission of, offences involving a breach of
the peace, or
(f) is so desperate and dangerous as to render his being at large without security hazardous to the community,such Magistrate may, in manner hereinafter provided require such person to show-cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bond, with sureties, for his good behaviour for such period, not exceeding three years, as the Magistrate thinks fit to fix.
[1]. Subs.
for the words “District Magistrate...Provincial Government” by Ord., XXXVII of
2001, [PLJ 2001 Fed.