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CHAPTER VI PROCESSES TO COMPEL APPEARANCE · B.—Warrant of arrest

Section 74: Warrants to whom directed

The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

(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.

Corresponding CrPC provision

As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

Questions on this section

1 question in 7 of our papers cite Section 74. Try these from the free papers:

  1. 1. Under Section 74(1) of the BNSS, a warrant of arrest shall ordinarily be directed to one or more police officers. In which situation may the Court issuing it direct it to any other person?

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