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BNSS Section 74: Warrants to whom directed

Section 74 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 deals with warrants to whom directed. It replaces CrPC 72 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

Text of BNSS Section 74

74. (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.

Warrant may be directed to any person.

CrPC sections replaced

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