CrPC § 86 — Procedure by Magistrate before whom person arrested is brought

Statutory text (English)

(1) Such Magistrate or
District Superintendent 1* * shall, if the person arrested appears to be the person intended by the Court
which issued the warrant, direct his removal in custody to such Court:

Provided that, if the offence is bailable, and such person is ready and willing to give bail to the
satisfaction of such Magistrate, District Superintendent 1* *, or a direction has been endorsed under section
76 on the warrant and such person is ready and willing to give the security required by such direction, the
Magistrate, District Superintendent 1* * shall take such bail or security, as the case may be, and forward the
bond to the Court which issued the warrant [:]2
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Provided further that, if the offence is not bailable or no direction has been endorsed under section 76
on the warrant, the Sessions Judge of the Sessions division in which the person is arrested may, subject to
the provisions of section 497 and for sufficient reasons, release the person on an interim bail on such bond
or security as the Sessions Judge thinks fit and direct the person to appear by a specified date before the
Court which issued the warrant and forward the bond to that Court.]

(2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent a police-officer from taking security under section

Source and verification

Source citation: CrPC (Act V of 1898) s.86: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE' (Act No. V of 1898, last amended 2017-02-16), p. 45, ingested 2026-09-15. Automated transcription from official source (pypdf extraction, audited artifact repair); human admin re-check required before production.

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• Date not confirmed: Consolidated current text as published in the official Pakistan Code PDF (p. 45) — reflects all amendments recorded in the official footnotes up to ingest date 2026-09-15. Automated transcription; per-amendment version…

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