Section 74 BNSS| Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS):
Warrants to whom directed.
(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.
Section 75 BNSS| Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), Bare Act:
Warrant may be directed to any person.
(1) The Chief Judicial Magistrate or a Magistrate of the first class may direct a warrant to any person within his local jurisdiction for the arrest of any escaped convict, 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 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.
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Section 76 BNSS| Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS):
Warrant directed to police officer.
A warrant directed to any police officer may also be executed by any other police officer whose name is endorsed upon the warrant by the officer to whom it is directed or endorsed.
Section 77 BNSS| Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS):
Notification of substance of warrant.
The police officer or other person executing a warrant of arrest shall notify the substance thereof to the person to be arrested, and, if so required, shall show him the warrant.
Section 78 BNSS| Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS):
Person arrested to be brought before Court without delay.
The police officer or other person executing a warrant of arrest shall (subject to the provisions of section 73 as to security) without unnecessary delay bring the person arrested before the Court before which he is required by law to produce such person:
Provided that such delay shall not, in any case, exceed twenty-four hours exclusive of the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the Magistrate's Court.
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Section 79 BNSS| Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS):
Where warrant may be executed.
A warrant of arrest may be executed at any place in India.
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