Warrant (பிடியாணை)

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Warrant (பிடியாணை)

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Code Of Criminal Procedure Act (No. 15 of 1979) -
50.(1) Every warrant of arrest issued by a court under this Code shall be in writing, signed by a Judge of that court and shall be in the prescribed form. Continuance of warrant of arrest.(2) Every such warrant shall remain in force until it is cancelled by the court which issued it or until it is executed.

51.(1) A Magistrate's Court issuing a warrant for the arrest of any person may in the case of any nonbailable offence and shall in the case of a bailable offence 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 day and the hour 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.

52.(1) A warrant of arrest issued by a court shall ordinarily be directed to the Fiscal of that court and may be executed by all Fiscals, fiscals officers, and peace officers within the limits of their several and respective jurisdictions or in any part of Sri Lanka by any police officer.(2) The court issuing the warrant may direct it to any other person or persons by name or office and such person or persons or any police officer may execute the same.(3) When the warrant is directed to a peace officer by name, it shall not be executed by another peace officer unless endorsed to him by name.(4) When the warrant is directed to more persons than one it may be executed by all or any one or more of them.

53. The person executing a warrant of arrest shall notify the substance thereof to the person arrested, and if so required by the person arrested shall show him the warrant or a copy thereof signed by the person issuing the same.

54. The person executing a warrant of arrest shall (subject to the provisions of section 51 as to security) without unnecessary delay bring the person arrested before the court before which he is required by law to produce such person, and he shall endorse on the warrant the time when and the place where the arrest was made.

55. A warrant of arrest may be executed at any place in Sri Lanka.

56. Provided always that upon the execution of such warrant the provisions of section 58 shall apply.(1) When a warrant of arrest is to be executed outside the local limits of the jurisdiction of the court issuing it, the court shall ordinarily forward it by post or otherwise to the Magistrate's Court within the local limits of the jurisdiction of which it is to be executed.(2) A Magistrate of the Magistrate's Court to which the warrant is so forwarded shall endorse his name thereon and if practicable cause it to be executed within the local limits of his jurisdiction.(3) Whenever there is reason to believe that the delay or publicity occasioned by obtaining the endorsement of the Magistrate within the local limits of whose jurisdiction a warrant is to be executed will prevent such execution, the court issuing the warrant may direct the warrant specially to any person ; and a warrant so specially directed shall have effect and may lawfully be executed by such person without such endorsement as aforesaid anywhere within Sri Lanka :

57. When a warrant directed to a Fiscal is to be executed outside the jurisdiction of the court to which he is appointed he shall endorse it to the Fiscal of the court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction, the warrant is to be executed and shall thereupon forward the same by post or otherwise to such Fiscal, who upon receipt thereof shall cause such warrant to be executed in the same way as if it had been originally directed to him.

58.(1) When a warrant of arrest is executed outside the local limits of the jurisdiction of the court by which it was issued the person arrested shall, unless the court which issued the warrant is within twenty miles of the place of arrest or is nearer than the Magistrate's Court within the local limits of the jurisdiction of which the arrest was made or unless security be taken under section 51, be brought before such last-mentioned Magistrate's Court.(2) The Magistrate's Court before which the person arrested is brought shall, if the person arrested appears to be the person intended by the court which issued the warrant, direct his removal in custody to such last-mentioned court :(3) Anything in this section shall not be deemed to prevent a peace offi...