CrPC 79 — Warrant directed to police officer for execution outside jurisdiction

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Statutory text

(1) When a warrant directed to a
police officer is to be executed beyond the local jurisdiction of the Court issuing the same, he shall ordinarily take it

for endorsement either to an Executive Magistrate or to a police officer not below the rank of an officer in charge of a police station, within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the warrant is to be executed.
(2) Such  Magistrate  or  police  officer  shall  endorse  his  name  thereon  and  such  endorsement  shall  be  sufficient
authority to the police officer to whom the  warrant is directed to execute the same, and the local police shall, if so required, assist such officer in executing such warrant.
 (3)  Whenever  there  is  reason  to  believe  that  the  delay  occasioned  by  obtaining  the  endorsement  of  the
Magistrate  or  police  officer  within  whose  local  jurisdiction  the  warrant  is  to  be  executed  will  prevent  such
execution,  the  police  officer  to  whom  it  is  directed  may  execute  the  same  without  such  endorsement  in  any  place beyond the local jurisdiction of the Court which issued it.

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