Witness protection laws in Pakistan an overview


"Witness protection laws in Pakistan an overview"
Crime is a social phenomenon and response to it constitute the very criminal justice system.in Pakistan ths response to crime in a systematic manner suffers from many a problem one of the weakness as noted by the experts is the protection of witnesses who is turn feed into the testimonial evidence relied upon by the Courts for adjudication.
The legislation related to protection of witnesses has been introduced at both the federal as well as provincial level.
A new legislation domain to extent of the criminal law criminal procedure and evidence was introduced to the Constitution through its articles 142 and 143 conjointly read the two constitutional provisions prefer federal laws over the provincial laws.
(Federal law)
On witness protection was enacted on 7th june 2017. The law is not applicable to the province. It is primarily designed for Islambad capital territory.
The only apparent limit on the entry into the programme is the category ofbthe serious Offences
(Six types of protection to a witness)
1- establishing ' concealing and distancing of identity of a witness by different ways.
2- relocating the witness
3- provision of accommodation for the witness
4- provision of reasonable financial assistance
5- compensating the legal heirs of a protected witness
6- provision of special security arrangements for ths witness.
(References)
The Punjab protection rules 2015
The sindh witness protection act 2013
The balochistan witness protection act 2016
Khyber pakhtunkhwan has not introduced it is therefore utilize section 21 of ATC 1997.
International law
Related to witness protection is based on treaty law.

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