Power to direct security to be taken
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Summary
When a court issues an arrest warrant it can endorse the warrant to allow release if the person executes a bail bond with sufficient sureties for attendance at a specified time. The officer named in the warrant must take that security, release the person from custody, and send the bond to the court. The endorsement must state number of sureties, the amounts, and the attendance time.
Example
Ravi is arrested and a court issues a warrant with an endorsement that he may be released if he executes a bail bond with two sureties of Rs 10,000 each and attends on 10 June. The officer takes the security, releases Ravi from custody, and forwards the bond to the court.
Bare Act
Enacted text(1) Any Court issuing a warrant for the arrest of any person may in its discretion direct by endorsement on the warrant that, if such person executes a bail bond with sufficient sureties for his attendance before the Court at a specified time and thereafter until otherwise directed by the Court, the officer to whom the warrant is directed shall take such security and shall release such person from custody.
(2) The endorsement shall state-
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(a) the number of sureties;
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(b) the amount in which they and the person for whose arrest the warrant is issued, are to be respectively bound;
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(c) the time at which he is to attend before the Court.
(3) Whenever security is taken under this section, the officer to whom the warrant is directed shall forward the bond to the Court.
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