ADPP WRITTEN TEST SYLLABUS 2022, ASSISTANT PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, CRIMINAL LAW-I: PROCEDURE , 1. JURISDICTION OF COURTS, Sections.9

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ADPP WRITTEN TEST SYLLABUS 2022

ASSISTANT PUBLIC PROSECUTOR 

Assistant Public Prosecutor is known as ADPP and it is the main post in the prosecution department.

Public Prosecution Department has requested Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) to recruit suitable candidates for the vacant seats of ADPP.

ADPP WRITTEN TEST SYLLABUS 2022

The actual test patterns and syllabus of the Assistant Public Prosecutor jobs depend on the paper pattern /syllabus that is issued by PPSC prior to the exam on their official website. 

CRIMINAL LAW-I: PROCEDURE (150 MARKS) ( OBJECTIVE 25 & SUBJECTIVE 125)

1. Jurisdiction of courts, powers of the police, investigation procedures, trial processes, initiation of prosecutions, and judgments.

2. Principles of sentencing - the seriousness of offenses, and level of harm

3. Prosecution (prosecutorial test, selection of witnesses, additional evidence, examination of witnesses withdrawal of cases, scrutiny of police reports, tender of pardon

4. Types of police reports, discharge of accused person, etc.

5. Appeals and revision ( procedure and ground

6. Witness protection

7. Constitutional provisions related to the procedure ( right to be dealt with in accordance with the law, liberty, fair trial, the dignity of man, privacy, protection against retrospective punishment, protection against self-incrimination and double punishment, freedom of movement, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, freedom of speech, information, religion

8. Writs jurisdiction in criminal law

9. Probation laws

10. Law related to juveniles

11. High Court Rules & Orders related to the above matters ( Volume-III)

Here is a detail of the above topic 

1. JURISDICTION OF COURTS:

Besides the High Courts and the Courts constituted under any law other than this Code for the time being in force, there shall be two classes of criminal Courts in Pakistan, namely

i. Courts of Session

ii. Courts of Magistrates

Section.9 CrPC

COURT OF SESSION:

1. The Provincial Government shall establish a Court of Session for every sessions division, and appoint a judge of such Court.

2. The Provincial Government may, by general or special order in the official Gazette, direct at what place or places the Court of Session shall hold its sitting; but, until such order is made, the Courts of Sessions shall Hold their sittings as heretofore.

3. The Provincial Government may also appoint Additional Sessions Judges and Assistant, Sessions judges to exercise jurisdiction in one or more such Courts.

4. A Sessions judge of one session division may be appointed by Provincial Government to be also an Additional Sessions Judge, of another division, and in such case, he may sit for the disposal of the case at such place or places in either division, as the provisional Government may direct. 

5. All Courts of Session existing when this Code comes into force shall be deemed to have been established under this Act.

Section.12 CrPC

SUBORDINATE MAGISTRATES:

Provincial Government may appoint as many persons as it thinks fit to be Magistrates first, second, and third class in any district, from time to time, define focal areas within which such persons may exercise all or any of the powers, with which they may respectively be invested under this Code.

(2) Local limits of their jurisdiction:

Except as otherwise provided by such definition, the jurisdiction and powers of such persons shall extend throughout such district.

Section.14 CrPC

Special Judicial:

1. The Provincial Government may, on the recommendation of the High Court, confer upon any person including a former Executive Magistrate all or any of the powers, conferred, or conferrable by or under this Code on a judicial Magistrate in respect to Judicial cases or to a particular class or particular classes of cases, or regarding cases generally in any local area.

2. Such Magistrate shall be called Special Judicial Magistrates and shall be appointed for such term as the Provincial Government may, in consultation with High Court, by general or special order, direct.

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