Section 478: Power to commit for trial and bind over making the witnesses.––Whenever, in the

478. Power to commit for trial and bind over making the witnesses.––Whenever, in the course of any such inquiry, it appears that any person has committed within the jurisdiction of any Court in Pakistan an offence punishable under any law in force in Pakistan, the Court making the inquiry may, subject to such rules consistent with this Ordinance as the High Court may, from time to time, make, cause him to be arrested, or commit him, or hold him to bail, to take his trial before the proper Court, and may bind over any person to give evidence at the trial, and may, for the purposes of this section exercise all its powers as a criminal court.

Effective date: 2001-01-01

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