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HOW SUMMONS/WARRANTS EXECUTED OUTSIDE INDIA?

Provided the Summons or Warrant requires to be serviced or executed outside the territories of India, then the Central Government may have arrangements with other Government where the addressee resides or operates, it may send such Summons or Warrant in duplicate in such form directed to such Court, Judge or Magistrate for transmission to the addressee.

When a Court in the said territories receives a Summons or Warrant for service or execution –

  1. A Summons to an Accused person, or
  2. A Warrant for the Arrest of an Accused person, or
  3. A Summons to any person to appear and produce a document or other thing
  4. A Search Warrant

Issued by a Court in any State in India outside the said territories;

A contracting State [Country outside Indian territories] Court or Judge or Magistrate, which may serve the Summons or execute a Warrant as such it was issued by a local Court of that Country and where;

  1. A Warrant of Arrest is executed the arrested person shall be dealt to an extent under Section 80 and 81 of Cr.P.C.
  2. A Search Warrant is executed then it shall be dealt according to the procedure prescribed in Section 101 of Cr.P.C.

The Court of the Contracting State who executed a Warrant or Summons and should have procured any documents or things it shall forward to the Court who issued Warrant or Summons through such authority as per the advisories of the Central Government in this regard.  

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