CrPC § 522A — Power to restore possession of moveable property

Statutory text (English)

(1) Whenever a person is convicted of an
offence of criminal misappropriation of property or criminal breach of trust or cheating or forgery and it
appears to the Court that, by such misappropriation, breach of trust, cheating or forgery, any person has
been dispossessed or otherwise deprived of any moveable property, the Court may, if thinks fit, when
convicting such person of at any time within one month from the date of the convection, order the person
dispossessed or deprived of the property, where such property can be identified, to be restored to the
possession of such property, whether such property is in the possession or under the control of the person
convicted or of any other person to whom it may have been transferred for any consideration or otherwise.

(2) Where the property referred to in sub-section

(1) cannot be identified or has been disposed of by the
accused so that it may not be identified, the Court may order such compensation to be paid to the person
dispossessed or deprived of such property as it may determine in the circumstances of the case.

(3) No order referred to in sub-section

(1) or sub-section

(2) shall prejudice any right or interest in any
moveable property which any person may be able to establish in a civil suit.]

Source and verification

Source citation: CrPC (Act V of 1898) s.522A: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE' (Act No. V of 1898, last amended 2017-02-16), p. 184, 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. 184) — reflects all amendments recorded in the official footnotes up to ingest date 2026-09-15. Automated transcription; per-amendment…

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