NP News - Jan 5

A total of 7,012 prisoners of both genders from the prisons across the country were released on January 4 by the State pardon marking the country’s 75th Independence Day.

The #amnesty is allowed as per Section 401(1) of the Criminal Procedures Code which states:

“When any person has been sentenced to punishment for an offence, the President of the Union may at any time, without conditions or upon any conditions which the person sentenced accepts, suspend the execution of his sentence or remit the whole or any part of the punishment to which he has been sentenced.”

The released persons are bound under conditions that if they commit another crime in the future, they will have to serve the remaining sentences in addition to the punishment of the next crime.