CrPC § 45 — Village-headman, accountants, landholders and others bound to report certain matters

Statutory text (English)

(1)
Every village-headman, village-accountant, village watchman, village police-officer, owner or occupier of
land, and the agent of any such owner or occupier 3[in charge of the management of that land] and every
officer employed in the collection of revenue or rent of land on the part of 4[the 5[Government]] or the
Court of Wards, shall forthwith communicate to the nearest Magistrate 7[or Justice of the Peace] or to the
officer incharge of the nearest police-station whichever is the nearer, any information which he may
6[possess] respecting—
(a) the permanent or temporary residence of any notorious receiver or vendor of stolen property in
any village of which he is headman, accountant, watchman or police-officer, or in which he
owns or occupies land, or is agent, or collects revenue or rent;
(b) the resort to any place within, or the passage through, such village of any person whom he
knows, or reasonably suspects to be a thug, robber, escaped convict or proclaimed offender;
(c) the commission of, or intention to commit, in or near such village any non-boilable offence or
any offence punishable under section 143, 144, 145, 147 or 148 of the Pakistan Penal Code
(XLV of 1860) ;
(d) the occurrence in or near such village of any sudden or unnatural death or of any death under
suspicious circumstances; 8[or the discovery in or near such village of any corpse or part of a
corpse, in circumstances which lead to a reasonable suspicion that such a death has occurred or
the disappearance from such village of any person in circumstances which lead to a reasonable
suspicion that a non-bailable offence has been committed in respect of such person;]
(e) the commission of, or intention to commit, at any place out of 1[Pakistan] near such village any
act which, if committed in 1[Pakistan], would be an offence punishable under any of the
following sections of the Pakistan Penal Code (XLV of 1860), namely, 2[231, 232, 233,

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Source citation: CrPC (Act V of 1898) s.45: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE' (Act No. V of 1898, last amended 2017-02-16), p. 32, 33, ingested 2026-09-15. Automated transcription from official source (pypdf extraction, audited artifact repair); human admin re-check required before production.

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