Section 28, The Criminal Procedure Act, 2024

(1) A Court issuing a warrant for the arrest of a person inrespect of an offence not punishable by a sentence of life imprisonment shall, unless the complainant or prosecutor proffers good and sufficient reasons in an affidavit, why bail should not be granted, direct by endorsement on the warrant that, if the person enters into recognisance with sufficient sureties for his attendance before the Court at a specified time and after that until otherwise directed by the Court, the officer to whom the warrant is directed shall take such security and shall release the person from custody. (2) An endorsement under subsection (1), shall include- (a) the number of sureties; (b) the amount to which the sureties and the person for whose arrest the warrant is issued are to be respectively bound; (c) the Court before which the person arrested is to attend; and (d) the time at which he is to attend before the Court including an undertaking to appear at such subsequent times as may be directed by the Court. (3) Where an endorsement is made, the officer in charge of a police station to which, on arrest, the person named in the warrant is brought, shall release him upon his entering into such recognisance with or without sureties approved by that officer in accordance with an endorsement conditioned for his appearance before the Court and at the time and place named in the recognisance. (4) Whenever security is taken under this section, the officer to whom the warrant is directed shall forward the recognisance to the Court.