CrPC § 556 — Case in which Judge or Magistrate is personally interested

Statutory text (English)

No Judge or Magistrate shall,
except with the permission of the Court to which an appeal lies from his Court, try
* * * any case to or in
which he is a party, or personally interested, and no Judge or Magistrate shall hear an appeal from any
judgment or order passed or made by himself.

Explanation. A Judge or Magistrate shall not be deemed a party, or personally interested,
within the meaning of this section, to or in any case by reason only that he is a Municipal
Commissioner or otherwise concerned therein in a public capacity, or by reason only that he has
viewed the place in which an offence is alleged to have been committed, or any other place in
which any other transaction material to the case is alleged to have occurred, and made an inquiry in
connection with the case.

Illustration
A, as Collector, upon consideration of information furnished to him, directs the prosecution of
B for a breach of the Excise Laws. A is disqualified from trying this case as a Magistrate.

Source and verification

Source citation: CrPC (Act V of 1898) s.556: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE' (Act No. V of 1898, last amended 2017-02-16), p. 197, 198, 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. 197, 198) — reflects all amendments recorded in the official footnotes up to ingest date 2026-09-15. Automated transcription; per-amendment…

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