CrPC § 166 — When officer in charge of police-station may require another to issue search warrant

Statutory text (English)

(1) An
officer in charge of a police-station
[or a police-officer not being below the rank of sub-inspector making an
investigation] may require an officer in charge of another police-station, whether in the same or a different
district, to cause a search to be made in any place, in any case in which the former officer might cause such
search to be made, within the limits of his own station.

(2) Such officer, on being so required, shall proceed according to the provisions of section 165, and shall
forward the thing found, if any, to the officer at whose request the search was made.
[
(3) Whenever there is reason to believe that the delay occasioned by requiring an officer in charge of
another police-station to cause a search to be made under sub-section

(1) might result in evidence of the
commission of an offence being concealed or destroyed, it shall be lawful for an officer in charge of a
police-station or a police-officer making an investigation under this Chapter to search, or cause to be
searched, any place in the limits of another police-station, in accordance with the provisions of section 165,
as if such place were within the limits of his own station.

(4) Any officer conducting a search under sub-section

(3) shall forthwith send notice of the search to the
officer in charge of the police-station within the limits of which such place is situate, and shall also send with
such notice a copy of the list (if any) prepared under section 103, and shall also send to the nearest
Magistrate empowered to take cognizance of the offence, copies of the records referred to in section 165,
sub-sections

(1) and

(3).

(5) The owner or occupier of the place searched shall, on application, be furnished with a copy of any
record sent to the Magistrate under sub-section

(4):

Provided that he shall pay for the same unless the Magistrate for some special reason thinks fit to furnish
it free of cost.]

Source and verification

Source citation: CrPC (Act V of 1898) s.166: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE' (Act No. V of 1898, last amended 2017-02-16), p. 84, 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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