Pakistan Penal Code (PPC)
"Public servant
The words "public
servant" denotes a person falling under any of the descriptions herein
after following, namely. First: [Omitted by the Federal Laws (Revision and
Declaration) Ordinance, XXV// of 1981].
Second: Every
Commissioned Officer in the Military, Naval or Air Forces of Pakistan while serving under the
Federal Government or any Provincial Government;
Third: Every Judge;
Fourth: Every officer
of a Court of Justice whose duty it is, as such officer, to investigate or report on any matter
of law or fact, or to make, authenticate, or keep any document, or to take charge or dispose
of any property, or to execute any judicial process, or to administer any oath, or to
interpret, or to preserve order in the Court; and every person specially authorized by a Court
of Justice to perform any of such duties; Fifth: Every juryman,
assessor, or member of a panchayat assisting a Court of Justice or public servant;
Sixth: Every
arbitrator or other person to whom any cause or matter has been referred for decision or report by
any Court of Justice, or by any other competent public authority;
Seventh ; Every person
who holds any office by virtue of which he is empowered to place or keep any person in
confinement;
Eighth: Every officer
of the Government whose duty it is, as such officer, to prevent
offences, to give
information of offences, to bring offenders to justice, or to protect the
public health, safety
or convenience;
Ninth: Every officer
whose duty it is, as such officer, to take, receive, keep or expend any property on behalf of
the Government, or to make any survey, assessment or contract on behalf of the
Government, or to execute any revenue process, or to investigate, or to report, or any matter
affecting the pecuniary interests of the Government, or to make/ authenticate or keep
any document relating to the pecuniary interests of the Government, or to prevent the
infraction of any law for the protection of the pecuniary interests of the Government, and every
officer in the service or. pay of the Government or remunerated by fees or commission for
the performance of any public duty;
Tenth : Every officer
whose duty it is, as such officer, to take, receive, keep or expend any property, to make any
survey or assessment or to levy any rate or tax for any secular common purpose of any
village, town or district, or to make, authenticate or keep any document for the
ascertaining of the rights of the people of any village, town or district.
Eleventh : Every
person who holds any office in virtue of which he is empowered to
prepare, publish,
maintain or revise an electoral roll or to conduct an election or part of an elections.
