Chapter XVI A · Of Wrongful Restraint and Wrongful Confinement

Wrongful confinement

Section 340 · Pakistan Penal Code

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Whoever wrongfully restrains any person in such a manner as to prevent that person from proceeding beyond certain circumscribing limits, is said “wrongfully to confine” that person.

Illustrations

(a)

A causes Z to go within a walled space, and locks Z in. Z is than prevented from proceeding in any direction beyond the circumscribing line of wall. A wrongfully confines Z.

(b)

A places men with firearms at the outlets of a building, and tells Z that they will fire at Z if Z attempts to leave the building. A wrongfully confines Z.