CrPC § 124 — Power to release persons imprisoned for failing to give security

Statutory text (English)

(1) Whenever the
[Sessions
Judge] 6* * * is of opinion that any person imprisoned for failing to give security under this Chapter 7* * *
may be released without hazard to the community or to any other person, he may order such person to be
discharged.

(2) Whenever any person has been imprisoned for failing to give security under this Chapter, the 8* * *
5[Sessions Judge] may (unless the order has been made by some Court superior to his own) make an order
reducing the amount of the security or the number of sureties or the time for which security has been
required.
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(3) An order under sub-section

(1) may direct the discharge of such person either without conditions
or upon any conditions which such person accepts:

Provided that any condition imposed shall cease to be operative when the period for which such person
was ordered to give security has expired.]
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(4) The 11[Provincial Government] may prescribe the conditions upon which a conditional discharge
may be made.

(5) If any condition upon which any such person has been discharged is, in the opinion of the 5[Sessions
Judge] 12* * * by whom the order of discharge was made or of his successor, not fulfilled, he may cancel the
same.

(6) When a conditional order of discharge has been cancelled under sub-section

(5), such person may be
arrested by any police-officer without warrant, and shall thereupon be produced before the 5[Sessions
Judge.] 12* * *
Unless such person then gives security in accordance with the terms of the original order for the
unexpired portion of the term for which he was in the first instance committed or ordered to be
detained (such portion being deemed to be a period equal to the period between the date of the
breach of the conditions of discharge and the date on which, except for such conditional discharge,
he would have been entitled to release), the 1[Sessions Judge] 2* * * may remand such person to
prison to undergo such unexpired portion.
A person remanded to prison under this sub-section shall, subject to the provisions of section
122, be released at any time on giving security in accordance with the terms of the original order
for the unexpired portion aforesaid to the Court or Magistrate by whom such order was made, or to
its or his successor.]

Source and verification

Source citation: CrPC (Act V of 1898) s.124: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE' (Act No. V of 1898, last amended 2017-02-16), p. 65, 66, 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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