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Judgments on s.376, Pakistan Penal Code 1860
Pakistani court judgments that consider s.376, Pakistan Penal Code 1860, summarised in plain English, newest first. Each gives the issue, what the court held and what it means in practice, and is reviewed by an advocate.
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Under the Punjab child-marriage law, cohabitation must be shown before the heavier charge applies
Mayoon v. The State, etc.
Issue: Is a man who married a girl under 18 in April 2026 entitled to post-arrest bail, where the case was registered under…
Held: Yes. The Ordinance is a special law that deals separately with cohabitation in a child marriage: section 5 makes it child abuse (five to seven years) and deliberately uses 'cohabitation' rather than 'rape', and the marriage itself is not declared…
s.3, Punjab Child Marriage Restraint Ordinance 2026s.376, Pakistan Penal Code 1860s.4, Punjab Child Marriage Restraint Ordinance 2026s.497, Code of Criminal Procedure 1898