Legal glossary قانونی اصطلاحات
Terms used in Pakistani courts, in English and Urdu. Where a statute defines a term, its official definition is quoted.
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Qatl-i-amd
قتل عمد
Intentional killing: causing death with the intention of causing death or bodily injury likely to cause death.
جان بوجھ کر قتل: موت یا ایسی جسمانی ضرر کی نیت سے موت کا باعث بننا جس سے موت کا امکان ہو۔
Official definition: Section 300, PPC›
Whoever, with the intention of causing death or with the intention of causing bodily injury to a person, by doing an act which in the ordinary course of nature is likely to cause death, or with the knowledge that his act is so imminently dangerous that it must in all probability cause death, causes the death of such person, is said to commit qatl-e-amd.
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