Warrants to whom directed
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Summary
Warrants of arrest are normally directed to one or more police officers. If immediate execution is necessary and no police officer is immediately available, the court may direct the warrant to any other person, and that person must execute it. If the warrant is directed to multiple officers or persons, any one, several, or all of them may execute it.
Example
Priya files a complaint and the court issues a warrant, but no police officer is immediately available. The court directs the warrant to a nearby shopkeeper to arrest the accused, and the shopkeeper must execute it. If the warrant had named several people, any one of them could have carried out the arrest.
Bare Act
Enacted text(1) A warrant of arrest shall ordinarily be directed to one or more police officers; but the Court issuing such a warrant may, if its immediate execution is necessary and no police officer is immediately available, direct it to any other person or persons, and such person or persons shall execute the same.
(2) When a warrant is directed to more officers or persons than one, it may be executed by all, or by any one or more of them.
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