Section 81. Warrant directed to police officer for execution outside jurisdiction
(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.
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.
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.
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.