Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 — Section 187: Procedure where warrant issued by subordinate Magistrate

187. Procedure where warrant issued by subordinate Magistrate. __(1) If the person has been arrested under a warrant issued under section 186 5[,the Magistrate issuing the warrant shall send the arrested person to the Sessions Judge] to whom he is sub-ordinate, unless the Magistrate having jurisdiction to inquire into or try such offence issues his warrant for the arrest of such person, in which case the person arrested shall be delivered to the police-officer executing such warrant or shall be sent to the Magistrate by whom such warrant was issued.

(2)If the offence which the person arrested is alleged or suspected to have committed is one which may be inquired into or tried by any Criminal Court in the same district other than that of the Magistrate acting under section 186, such Magistrate shall send person to such Court. 188. 1[Liability for offences committed outside Pakistan.] When a 2[citizen of Pakistan] commits an offence at any place without and beyond the limits of 3[Pakistan], or 4 [* * * * * * *] when a servant of the 5[State (whether a citizen of Pakistan or not)] commits an offence in 6[a tribal area],7[ or when any person commits an offence on any ship or aircraft registered in 3[Pakistan] wherever it may be,] he may be dealt with in respect of such offence as if it had been committed at any place 3 within [Pakistan] at which he may be found: Political Agents to certify fitness of inquiry into charge. Provided that 8[notwithstanding anything in any of the preceding sections of this Chapter] no charge as to any such offence shall be inquired into in 3[Pakistan] unless the Political Agent, if there is one, for the territory in which the offence is alleged to have been committed, certifies that, in his opinion, the charge ought to be inquired into in 3[Pakistan]; and, where there is no Political Agent, the sanction of the 9[Federal Government] shall be required: Provided, also, that any proceedings taken against any person under this section which would be a bar to subsequent proceedings against such person for the same offence if such offence had been committed in 3[Pakistan] shall be a bar to further proceedings against him under 10[the 11[Extradition Act, 1972 (XXI of 1972)]], in respect of the same offence in any territory beyond the limits of 3 [Pakistan].