CrPC § 48 — Procedure where ingress not obtainable

Statutory text (English)

If ingress to such place cannot be obtained under section
47 it shall be lawful in any case for a person acting under a warrant and in any case in which a warrant may
issue, but cannot be obtained without affording the person to be arrested an opportunity of escape, for a
police-officer to enter such place and search therein, and in order to effect an entrance into such place, to
break open any outer or inner door or window of any house or place, whether that of the person to be
arrested or of any other person, if after notification of his authority and purpose, and demand of admittance
duly made, he can not otherwise obtain admittance:
Breaking open zenana.

Provided that, if any such place is an apartment in the actual occupancy of a
woman (not being the person to be arrested) who, according to custom, does not appear in public such
person or police-officer shall, before entering such apartment, give notice to such woman that she is at
liberty to withdraw and shall afford her every reasonable facility for withdrawing, and may then break open
the apartment and enter it.

Source and verification

Source citation: CrPC (Act V of 1898) s.48: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE' (Act No. V of 1898, last amended 2017-02-16), p. 34, 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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• Date not confirmed: Consolidated current text as published in the official Pakistan Code PDF (p. 34) — reflects all amendments recorded in the official footnotes up to ingest date 2026-09-15. Automated transcription; per-amendment version…

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