PART A SPECIAL RULES OF PROCEDURE IN CRIMINAL CASES.
1. In original trials, in proceedings taken under section 428 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, upon the hearing of an appeal or a revision petition, and in any other criminal proceedings coming before one or more Judges, the Judge or one of the Judges shall make a memorandum in Urdu or English of the substance of the evidence of each witness as the examination proceeds:**01
Provided that, by direction of a Judge, the evidence may be taken down in shorthand by an officer of the Court, or other person specially appointed for that purpose.
The transcript of the shorthand shall be corrected and signed by the Judges or one of them and shall then be placed on the record.
2. The evidence shall ordinarily be recorded in narrative form, and shall be signed by the Judge or one of the Judges and placed with the record.
3. When a sentence of death or of imprisonment for life or of imprisonment has been passed on an accused person convicted at a trial held before the High Court in exercise of its original criminal jurisdiction, the Court shall issue a warrant in order to cause such sentence to be carried into effect.*01
4. A warrant for the execution of any of the following sentences passed by the Court in exercise of its original criminal jurisdiction, namely, -
(a) sentence of death;
(b) sentence of imprisonment for life;
(c) sentence of imprisonment;
shall conform, as nearly as may be, to the forms prescribed by the Code of Criminal Procedure. *01
5. A warrant for the execution of any sentence mentioned in rule 4 shall be signed by the Judge or one of the Judges, who passed the sentence, or, if this be not practicable, by the Chief Justice.
6. (a) When the sentence passed upon an accused person is of any of the kinds specified in rule 4, the Court shall forthwith cause the warrant to be forwarded to the jail in which he is to be confined, and unless the accused person is already confined in such jail, shall cause him to be forwarded to such jail with the warrant *01
(b) ***01[Omitted]
7. Whenever, either by reason of the commutation or alteration of any such sentence as aforesaid or otherwise, an amended warrant becomes necessary, such warrant shall conform, so far as may be, mutatis mutandis, to Form No. XXXVI in Schedule V of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and shall be signed in the manner prescribed in rule 5.
8. An order under section 471 of the Code of Criminal Procedure shall be made in such form as the Judge making the same thinks fit, and shall be signed by the Judge who makes it, and the Court shall forthwith cause the accused person to be forwarded with the order to the place in which he is to be kept in custody.
9. Whenever an offender has been sentenced by the Court in exercise of its original criminal jurisdiction to pay a fine, and the Court directs that a warrant shall be issued under section 386 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the warrant shall conform, so far as may be, mutatis mutandis, to Form No. XXXVII in Schedule V of the said Code, and may be signed by the Deputy Registrar. *01
NOTE.***[Omitted]
10. Every warrant, amended warrant and order made and signed under the preceding rule shall, before being issued, be sealed with the seal of the Court.
11. Processes issued by the High Court may issue over the signature of the Assistant Registrar of the Branch dealing with the case. *01
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