(1) When a warrant directed to a police officer is to be executed beyond the local jurisdiction of the Court issuing the same, he shall ordinarily take it for endorsement either to an Executive Magistrate or to a police officer not below the rank of an officer in charge of a police station, within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the warrant is to be executed.
(2) Such Magistrate or police officer shall endorse his name thereon and such endorsement shall be sufficient authority to the police officer to whom the warrant is directed to execute the same, and the local police shall, if so required, assist such officer in executing such warrant.
(3) Whenever there is reason to believe that the delay occasioned by obtaining the endorsement of the Magistrate or police officer within whose local jurisdiction the warrant is to be executed will prevent such execution, the police officer to whom it is directed may execute the same without such endorsement in any place beyond the local jurisdiction of the Court which issued it.
Legal Commentary & Landmark Judgments: Section 81
Section 81 prescribes the procedure when a warrant of arrest directed to a police officer is to be executed outside the local jurisdiction of the court issuing it, requiring the officer to take it for endorsement to an Executive Magistrate or police station in-charge of that area.
In challenge to an inter-state arrest, cross-examine the arresting officer on the local General Diary (GD) entry. If the visiting police arrested the client without informing the local police station and failed to show urgency, the arrest violates Section 81.