(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 71.
Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC)
71 CrPC Power to direct security to be taken
72 CrPC Warrants to whom directed
73 CrPC Warrant may be directed to any person
74 CrPC Warrant directed to police officer
75 CrPC Notification of substance of warrant
76 CrPC Person arrested to be brought before Court without delay
77 CrPC Where warrant may be executed
78 CrPC Warrant forwarded for execution outside jurisdiction
79 CrPC Warrant directed to police officer for execution outside jurisdiction
80 CrPC Procedure on arrest of person against whom warrant issued