Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 — Section 132: Protection against prosecution for act done under the Chapter

132. Protection against prosecution for act done under the Chapter. No prosecution against any person for any act purporting to be done under this Chapter shall be instituted in any Criminal Court, except with the sanction of the 2[Provincial Government] ; and

(a)no 3[* *] police officer acting under this Chapter in good faith,

(b)no officer acting under section 131 in good faith,

(c)no person doing any act in good faith, in compliance with a requisition under section 128 or section 130, 4[or section 131-A], and

(d)no inferior officer, or soldier, 5[sailor or airman in the armed forces], doing any act in obedience to any order which he was bound to obey, shall be deemed to have thereby committed an offence: 1 [132A. Definitions. In this Chapter,

(a)the expression “armed forces” means the military, naval and air forces, operating as land forces and includes 2[* * *] any other armed forces of Pakistan so operating ; 3 [(aa) the expression “civil armed forces” means the Pakistan Rangers, Frontier Corps, Frontier Constabulary, Baluchistan Constabulary, Pakistan Coast Gaurds or any other force as the Federal Government may notify.]

(b)“officer”, in relation to the armed forces, means a person commissioned, gazetted or in pay as an officer of the armed forces and includes a junior commissioned officer, a warrant officer, a petty officer and a non­commissioned officer ; and

(c)“soldier” includes a member of the force constituted under the Act referred to in clause (a).] CHAPTER X PUBLIC NUISANCES such Magistrate may make a conditional order requiring the person causing such obstruction or nuisance, or carrying on such trade or occupation, or keeping any such goods or merchandise, or owning, possessing or controlling such building, tent, structure, substance, tank, well or excavation, or owning or possessing such animal or tree, within a time to be fixed in the order, to remove such obstruction or nuisance ; or to desist from carrying on, or to remove or regulate in such manner as may be directed, such trade or occupation; or to remove such goods or merchandise, or to regulate the keeping thereof in such manner as may be directed ; or to prevent or stop the erection of, or to remove, repair or support, such building, tent or structure ; or to remove or support such tree ; or to alter the disposal of such substance ; or to fence such tank, well or excavation, as the case may be ; or to destroy, confine or dispose of such dangerous animal in the manner provided in the said order ; or, if he objects so to do, to appear before himself or some other 1[Magistrate of the first class], at a time and place to be fixed by the order, and move to have the order set aside or modified in the manner hereinafter provided.

(2)No order duly made by a Magistrate under this section shall be called in question in any Civil Court. Explanation.__ A “public place” includes also property belonging to the State, camping grounds and grounds left unoccupied for sanitary or recreative purposes.]