With the Supreme Court pulling it up repeatedly and setting a deadline for the arrest of two Madhya Pradesh police personnel wanted in a case of custodial death, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Wednesday informed the apex court that it had finally been able to arrest them.

A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and R Mahadevan, however, continued to probe the central agency, wondering why it had failed to arrest them thus far and acted only after the court had warned that it would frame a contempt of court charge against the officers.

“We find that the arrest has been made due to the stringent and strong remarks of this court. The fact remains that there has been non-compliance of the order dated 15.05.2025, and only pursuant to this contempt petition and the observations made by t

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