Supreme Court Mandates Written Arrest Grounds in Comprehensible Language for All Offenses in India

Nov 07, 2025 01:31 am CST

In a landmark judgment arising from the Mihir Rajesh Shah case, India's Supreme Court has ruled that law enforcement must provide every arrested person with written grounds for arrest in their understandable language, regardless of offense type. The Court clarified that these grounds must be supplied within reasonable time and at least two hours before magistrate appearances, establishing this requirement as a fundamental constitutional protection rather than mere procedural formality.