The expression “distinct offences” is not defined in the Code.

9. The expression “distinct offences” is not defined in the Code. However, the Illustration to Section 233 indicates that it means the offences which have no connection with each other. In Ramesh M. Udeshi v. The State (2002 PCr.LJ 1712) while dilating on this issue a Division Bench of the Karachi High Court observed that they may be classified under the following heads (though the list is not exhaustive):
(a) Offences falling under different sections of the same penal enactment.
(b) Offences falling under different penal enactments.
(c) Offences committed on different occasions even though they may fall under the same section. (d) Offences committed against different persons.
(e) Offences committed by different persons individually though they may be of the same kind, as where three persons were charged with being drunk.
(f) Allegations of misappropriation against accused not in respect of any single amount but relating to different specific amounts received by him on different dates from different persons.

Used in Judgement of
Lahore High court
Criminal Proceedings
174343/18
2018 LHC 1157