71.
Power to direct security to be taken.
71.Power to direct security to be taken. (1) Any Court issuing a
warrant for the arrest of any person may be in its discretion direct
by endorsement on the warrant that, if such person executes a bond
with sufficient sureties for his attendance before the Court at a
specified time and thereafter until otherwise 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 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.
72.
Warrants to whom directed.
72.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.
73.
Warrant may be directed any person.
73.Warrant may be directed 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 nonbailable, offence and is evading arrest.
(2)
Such person shall acknowledge in writing the receipt of
the