79.
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.
(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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