PPC § 207 — Fraudulent claim to property to prevent its seizure as forfeited or in execution.

Statutory text (English)

Whoever fraudulently accepts, receives or claims any property or any interest therein, knowing that he
has no right or rightful claim to such property or interest, or practises any deception touching any right
to any property or any interest therein, intending thereby to prevent that property or interest therein
from being taken as a forfeiture or in satisfaction of a fine, under a sentence which has been
pronounced, or which he knows to be likely to be pronounced by a Court of Justice or other competent
authority, or from being taken in execution of a decree or order which has been made, or which he
knows to be likely to be made by a Court of Justice in a civil suit, shall be punished with imprisonment
of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.

Source and verification

Source citation: PPC (Act XLV of 1860) s.207: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE PAKISTAN PENAL CODE' (Act No. XLV of 1860), p. 84, 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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