CrPC § 53 — Power to seize offensive weapons

Statutory text (English)

The officer or other person making any arrest under this Code
may take from the person arrested any offensive weapons which he has about his person, and shall deliver
all weapons so taken to the Court or officer before which or whom the officer or person making the arrest is
required by this Code to produce the person arrested.
1["53A. Examination of person accused of rape, etc. by medical practitioner.—
(1) When a person is
arrested on a charge of committing an offence of rape unnatural offence or sexual abuse or an attempt to
commit rape, unnatural offence or sexual abuse under section 376,section 377 and section 377B repectively
and there are reasonable grounds for believing that an examination of the arrested person will afford
evidence as to the commission of such offence, it shall be lawful for a registered medical practitioner
employed in a hospital run by the Government or by a local authority to make such an examination of the
arrested person and to use such force as is reasonably necessary for that purpose.

(2) The registered medical practioner conducting examination under sub-section

(1) shall, without delay,
examine such person and prepare a report of his examination giving the following particulars,namely:—
(a) name and address of the accused and of the person by whom he was brough;
(b) age of the accused;
(c) marks of injury, if any,on person of the accused;
(d) description of material taken from person of the accused for DNA profiling;and
(e) other material particulars in reasonable detail.

(3) The report under sub-section

(2) shall state precisely the reasons for each conclusion arrived at.

(4) The exact time of commencement and completion of the examination under sub-section

(1) shall
also be noted in the report under sub-section

(2). The registered medical practioner shall, without delay,
forward the report to the investigating officer who shall forward it to the Magistrate through public
prosecutor reffered to in section 173 as part of the report referred to in that section.".
B.—Arrest without Warrant

Source and verification

Source citation: CrPC (Act V of 1898) s.53: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE' (Act No. V of 1898, last amended 2017-02-16), p. 35, 36, 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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