Supreme Court Makes Written Grounds of Arrest Mandatory for All Offences, Declares Non

In a landmark judgment strengthening the protection of personal liberty, the Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that every person arrested for any offence under the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) 2023, or any other law, must be provided with the written grounds of arrest in a language they understand. A bench of chief justice BR Gavai and justice Augustine George Masih held that failure to comply with this constitutional mandate would render both the arrest and subsequent remand proceedings illegal. “The obligation to inform the arrestee of the grounds of arrest in writing flows directly from Article 22(1) of the Constitution,” the bench says. “If such information is not furnished, the arrest would amount to a violation of the fundamental rights guaranteed