73. Service of summons outside local limits. When a Court desires that a summons issued by it shall be
served at any place outside the local limits of its jurisdiction, it shall ordinarily send such summons in
duplicate to a Magistrate within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the person summoned resides or is, to
be there served.
74. Proof of service in such cases and when serving 1[person] not present.(1) When a summons
issued by a Court is served outside the local limits of its jurisdiction, and in any case where the 1[person]
who has served a summons is not present at the hearing of the case, an affidavit, purporting to be made
before a Magistrate, that such summons has been served, and a duplicate of the summons purporting to be
endorsed (in manner provided by section 69 and section 70) by the person to whom it was delivered or
tendered or with whom it was left, shall be admissible in evidence, and the statements made therein shall be
deemed to be correct unless and until the contrary is proved.
(2) The affidavit mentioned in this section may be attached to the duplicate of the summons and
returned to the Court.
B.Warrant of Arrest
75. Form of warrant of arrest.(1) Every Warrant of arrest issued by a Court under this Code shall be
in writing, signed by the presiding officer, or in the case of a Bench of Magistrates, by any member of such
Bench; and shall bear the seal of the Court.
(2) Continuance of warrant of arrest. Every such warrant shall remain in force until it is cancelled by
the Court which issued it, or until it is executed.
76. Court may direct security to be taken. Any Court issuing a warrant for the arrest of any person
may in its discretion direct by endorsement on the warrant that, if such person execute 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; and
(c) the time at which he is to attend before the Court.
(3) Recognizance to be forwarded. Whenever security is taken under this section the officer to whom
the warrant is directed shall forward the bond to the Court.
1 Subs. by the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1972 (12 of 1972), s.2 and Sch., for “officer”.
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