Warrant directed to police officer for execution outside jurisdiction
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Summary
When a warrant addressed to a police officer must be carried out outside the issuing court's local area, the officer should normally get it endorsed by an Executive Magistrate or a police officer in charge where it will be executed. That endorsement authorises the officer to act and the local police must assist if asked. If getting endorsement would cause delay likely to prevent execution, the officer may execute the warrant without endorsement.
Example
Priya files an FIR and a court gives a warrant to Officer Arjun to arrest a suspect in the neighbouring district. Arjun takes the warrant to the Executive Magistrate or the local station in-charge there for endorsement, and that endorsement lets him execute the warrant with local police help. If waiting for endorsement would let the suspect escape, Arjun may act without it.
Bare Act
Enacted 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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