Category: law of arrest
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Preventive arrest and security proceedings in CrPC (S.107/151 CrPC) and misuse abuse
Context Abuse of the criminal justice machinery is rampant in India. People are often wrongly implicated in criminal cases and deprived of their personal liberty. India – in fact – bears the dubious distinction of being a country with one of the highest number of pending criminal cases (relative to civil cases), where more than…
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Mandatory to supply grounds of arrest (in writing) to an accused in PMLA case
The Supreme Court on 3rd October, 2023 passed a landmark judgment in the case of Pankaj Bansal v. Union of India. The judgment is on Section 19 of the PMLA which reads as follows: “19. Power to arrest.—(1) If the Director, Deputy Director, Assistant Director or any other officer authorised in this behalf by the…
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