When officer in charge of police station may require another to issue search-warrant.

What this section does

An officer in charge of a police station or a police officer not below the rank of sub-inspector may require an officer in charge of another police station (in the same or a different district) to conduct a search in that station's limits, and the requested officer must proceed under section 185 and forward any thing found to the requesting officer. Where delay in making such a request might result in concealment or destruction of evidence, the investigating officer may directly search a place in another station's limits as if it were within his own. The officer conducting such a cross-jurisdictional search must promptly notify the local station officer and send copies of records to the nearest Magistrate empowered to take cognizance.

AI-generated plain-language summary. For the binding statutory text, see India Code (official).

Procedure at a glance

Key actors

Officer in charge of police station · Police officer (sub-inspector or above) · Magistrate · Owner/occupier of searched place

Time limit

None specified

Derived from CrPC s.166.