Warrants to whom directed
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Summary
A warrant of arrest is normally directed to one or more police officers. If immediate execution is needed and no police officer is available, the court that issued the warrant may direct it to any other person, who must then execute it. When a warrant is addressed to several people, any one or more of them may carry it out.
Example
Priya files an FIR about a suspected thief who ran off. The magistrate issues a warrant but no police officer is immediately available, so the court directs it to Arjun, a nearby shopkeeper, to arrest the suspect at once. Arjun may execute the arrest. If the warrant had been directed to several people, any one or more of them could have done 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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