QSO 1984 § Article 37 — Confession caused by inducement, threat or promise, when irrelevant in

Statutory text (English)

criminal proceeding. A confession made by an accused person is irrelevant in a
criminal proceeding, if the making of the confession appears to the Court to have been
caused by any inducement, threat or promise having reference to the charge against the
accused person, proceeding from a person in authority and sufficient, in the opinion of
the Court, to give the accused person grounds which would appear to him reasonable,
for supposing that by making it he would gain any advantage or avoid any evil of a
temporal nature in reference to the proceedings against him.

Source and verification

Source citation: Qanun-e-Shahadat Order, 1984 (P.O. No. X of 1984) Art. 37: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE QANUN-E-SHAHADAT ORDER 1984 (LAW OF EVIDENCE)' (P.O. No. X of 1984, last amended 2017-02-16 incl. Act No. IV of 2017), p. 28, 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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