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FAI Legal quotes the statute text itself from its index, so what you read is the provision, not a paraphrase of it.

By the FAI Legal editorial desk · 7 October 2026 · 5 slides · 2 min read

  1. Exact statute text, quoted. Read the section. Not someone's summary of it.
  2. Search the statute books. · Keyword search across Pakistan's indexed acts. Narrow by Act or jurisdiction.
  3. Act. Section. Provision. · Quoted from the section itself, not a paraphrase.
  4. The words themselves. · The section, as it stands in the official text. · Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898
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Search the statute books.

Keyword search across Pakistan's indexed acts. Narrow by Act or jurisdiction.

Act. Section. Provision.

Quoted from the section itself, not a paraphrase.

The words themselves.

The section, as it stands in the official text.

“(1) When any person accused of any non-bailable offence is arrested or detained without warrant by an officer in charge of a police station, or appears or is brought before a Court, he may be released on bail”

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, Section 497. When bail may be taken in case of non-bailable offence

Sources

  • Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898
    Section 497. When bail may be taken in case of non-bailable offence Pakistan Code

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