Gujarat High Court Civil Manual (subordinate court practice), 1960
The following rules have been made under the old Code and are in force and need not therefore be made again under section 55, clause (2) of the Code :— (i) If at the moment of proposed arrest of any person under civil process he is engaged in the performance of public duties, his withdrawal from which would be attended with danger or manifest public inconvenience, the arresting Officer should first acquaint the immediate superior of the employee about to be arrested or the person who has authority to find a substitute to perform the duties of such employee, and, if necessary, should defer arrest until such employee is relieved by another. A similar course should be pursued with regard to persons filling offices connected with the preservation of the peace. The expenses should be paid by the decree-holder and added to the sum levied in execution. (ii) Whenever a Court has occasion to issue a warrant for the arrest of any person in the employment of a Railway Administration, the Court shall enter in the warrant a direction to the bailiff or process-server to whom it is entrusted for execution requiring him before making the arrest, if the person to be arrested is on duty, to acquaint a superior official of such person with the fact that the arrest is about to be made. (iii) With reference to a person in the employment of a Railway Administration, the words "Official Superior" shall be deemed to include a railway official of the rank of Station Master, Foreman or Inspector, but not one of lower rank.