Warrant directed to police officer for execution outside jurisdiction
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Summary
If a police officer must execute a warrant outside the issuing court's local area, he should usually get it endorsed by an Executive magistrate or a police officer of at least station-in-charge rank where the warrant will be executed. That endorsement authorises execution and local police must assist. If waiting would cause harmful delay, the officer may proceed without endorsement.
Example
Ravi, a police officer in Town A, receives a warrant to arrest a suspect in Town B outside his court's area. He takes the warrant to the Town B station-in-charge for endorsement, then arrests with local police help. If endorsement would take too long he may arrest 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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