The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
§425 — Who may issue warrant
Every warrant for the execution of a sentence may be issued either by the Judge or Magistrate who passed the sentence, or by his successor-in-office.
Old law ⇄ new law
Renumberedold law ⇄ new law
CRPC §425 → BNSS §465 per the official NCRB Sankalan table.
Source & version
Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), English PDF (bitstream 123456789/15272/1/the_code_of_criminal_procedure,_1973.pdf, 1,879,339 bytes) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-07-16. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Repealed by BNSS 2023 w.e.f. 2024-07-01. Automated parse; footnotes/amendment history excluded; illustrations restored via illustration-aware re-extraction on 2026-07-19; spot-verified; full clause-level proofread pending.
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