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CLAUSES

25. Sentence in cases of conviction of several offences at one trial.

26. Mode of conferring powers.
27. Powers of officers appointed.
28. Withdrawal of powers.
29. Powers of Judges and Magistrates exercisable by their successors-in-office.

CHAPTER IV
POWERS OF SUPERIOR OFFICERS OF POLICE AND AID TO THE MAGISTRATES AND THE POLICE
30. Powers of superior officers of police.
31. Public when to assist Magistrates and police.
32. Aid to person, other than police officer, executing warrant.
33. Public to give information of certain offences.
34. Duty of officers employed in connection with the affairs of a village to make certain
report.

CHAPTER V
ARREST OF PERSONS
35. When policemay arrest without warrant.
36. Procedure of arrest and duties of officer making arrest.
37. Designated Police Officer.
38. Right of arrested person to meet an advocate of his choice during interrogation.
39. Arrest on refusal to give name and residence.
40. Arrest by private person and procedure on such arrest.
41. Arrest by Magistrate.
42. Protection of members of the Armed Forces from arrest.
43. Arrest how made.
44. Search of place entered by person sought to be arrested.
45. Pursuit of offenders into other jurisdictions.
46. No unnecessary restraint.
47. Person arrested to be informed of grounds of arrest and of right to bail.
48. Obligation of person making arrest to inform about the arrest, etc., to relative or
friend.
49. Search of arrested person.
50. Power to seize offensive weapons.
51. Examination of accused by medical practitioner at the request of police officer.
52. Examination of person accused of rape by medical practitioner.
53. Examination of arrested person by medical officer.
54. Identification of person arrested.
55. Procedure when police officer deputes subordinate to arrest without warrant.
56. Health and safety of arrested person.
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CLAUSES
57. Person arrested to be taken before Magistrate or officer in charge of police station.
58. Person arrested not to be detained more than twenty-four hours.
59. Police to report apprehensions.
60. Discharge of person apprehended.
61. Power, on escape, to pursue and retake.
62. Arrest to be made strictly according to the Sanhita.

CHAPTER VI
PROCESSES TO COMPEL APPEARANCE

A.—Summons
63. Form of summons.
64. Summons how served.
65. Service of summons on corporate bodies, firms, and societies.
66. Service when persons summoned cannot be found.
67. Procedure when service cannot be effected as before provided.
68. Service on Government servant.
69. Service of summons outside local limits.
70. Proof of service in such cases and when serving officer not present.
71. Service of summons on witness by post.
B.—Warrant of arrest

72. Form of warrant of arrest and duration.

73. Power to direct security to be taken.
74. Warrants to whom directed.
75. Warrant may be directed to any person.
76. Warrant directed to police officer.
77. Notification of substance of warrant.
78. Where warrant may be executed.
79. Where warrant may be executed.
80. Warrant forwarded for execution outside jurisdiction.
81. Warrant directed to police officer for execution outside jurisdiction.
82. Procedure on arrest of person against whom warrant issued.
83. Procedure by Magistrate before whom such person arrested is brought.
C.—Proclamation and attachment
84. Proclamation for person absconding.
85. Attachment of property of person absconding.
86. Identification and attachment of property of proclaimed person.
87. Claims and objections to attachment.
88. Release, sale and restoration of attached property.
89. Appeal from order rejecting application for restoration of attached property.
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(2) Every such warrant shall remain in force until it is cancelled by the Court which
issued it, or until it is executed.
Power to 73. (1) Any Court issuing a warrant for the arrest of any person may in its discretion
direct security direct by endorsement on the warrant that, if such person executes a bond with sufficient
to be taken.
sureties for his attendance before the Court at a specified time and thereafter until otherwise 5
directed by the Court, the officer to whom the warrant is directed shall take such security
and shall release such person from custody.
(2) The endorsement shall state—
(a) the number of sureties;

(b) the amount in which they and the person for whose arrest the warrant is 1 0
issued, are to be respectively bound;
(c) the time at which he is to attend before the Court.
(3) Whenever security is taken under this section, the officer to whom the warrant is
directed shall forward the bond to the Court.
Warrants to 74. (1) A warrant of arrest shall ordinarily be directed to one or more police officers; 1 5
whom but the Court issuing such a warrant may, if its immediate execution is necessary and no
directed.
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. 20

Warrant may 75. (1) The Chief Judicial Magistrate or a Magistrate of the first class may direct a
be directed to warrant to any person within his local jurisdiction for the arrest of any escaped convict,
any person.
proclaimed offender or of any person who is accused of a non-bailable offence and is
evading arrest.

(2) Such person shall acknowledge in writing the receipt of the warrant, and shall 2 5
execute it if the person for whose arrest it was issued, is in, or enters on, any land or other
property under his charge.

(3) When the person against whom such warrant is issued is arrested, he shall be
made over with the warrant to the nearest police officer, who shall cause him to be taken
before a Magistrate having jurisdiction in the case, unless security is taken under section 73. 3 0

Warrant 76. A warrant directed to any police officer may also be executed by any other police
directed to officer whose name is endorsed upon the warrant by the officer to whom it is directed or
police officer.
endorsed.

Notification 77. The police officer or other person executing a warrant of arrest shall notify the
of substance substance thereof to the person to be arrested, and, if so required, shall show him the 3 5
of warrant.
warrant.

Person 78. The police officer or other person executing a warrant of arrest shall (subject to
arrested to be the provisions of section 73 as to security) without unnecessary delay bring the person
brought before
Court without
arrested before the Court before which he is required by law to produce such person:
delay.
Provided that such delay shall not, in any case, exceed twenty-four hours exclusive 4 0
of the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the Magistrate's Court.

Where 79. A warrant of arrest may be executed at any place in India.

warrant may
be executed.