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Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter VI: Processes To Compel Appearance

Section 74 BNSS: Warrants to whom directed

Corresponding CrPC
Section 72 CrPC

Bare Act 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.

Text as enacted in the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 46 of 2023), in force from 1 July 2024. Source: India Code, Government of India.

In simple words

Provides that an arrest warrant is ordinarily directed to one or more police officers. If immediate execution is necessary and no police officer is available, the court may direct it to any other person, and a warrant directed to several persons may be executed by any one or more of them.

Chapter VI: Processes To Compel Appearance

  1. 63 Form of summons
  2. 64 Summons how served
  3. 65 Service of summons on corporate bodies, firms, and societies
  4. 66 Service when persons summoned cannot be found
  5. 67 Procedure when service cannot be effected as before provided
  6. 68 Service on Government servant
  7. 69 Service of summons outside local limits
  8. 70 Proof of service in such cases and when serving officer not present
  9. 71 Service of summons on witness
  10. 72 Form of warrant of arrest and duration
  11. 73 Power to direct security to be taken
  12. 74 Warrants to whom directed
  13. 75 Warrant may be directed to any person
  14. 76 Warrant directed to police officer
  15. 77 Notification of substance of warrant
  16. 78 Person arrested to be brought before Court without delay
  17. 79 Where warrant may be executed
  18. 80 Warrant forwarded for execution outside jurisdiction
  19. 81 Warrant directed to police officer for execution outside jurisdiction
  20. 82 Procedure on arrest of person against whom warrant issued
  21. 83 Procedure by Magistrate before whom such person arrested is brought
  22. 84 Proclamation for person absconding
  23. 85 Attachment of property of person absconding
  24. 86 Identification and attachment of property of proclaimed person
  25. 87 Claims and objections to attachment
  26. 88 Release, sale and restoration of attached property
  27. 89 Appeal from order rejecting application for restoration of attached property
  28. 90 Issue of warrant in lieu of, or in addition to, summons
  29. 91 Power to take bond or bail bond for appearance
  30. 92 Arrest on breach of bond or bail bond for appearance
  31. 93 Provisions of this Chapter generally applicable to summons and warrants of arrest
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