The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Karnataka’s plea challenging a High Court ruling that applied the Pankaj Bansal v. Union of India (2024) judgment retrospectively. In Pankaj Bansal, the Court held that written grounds of arrest must be furnished to the accused at the time of arrest. Karnataka argues this rule applies prospectively, not to arrests before October 3, 2023. The State also cited Ram Kishor Arora v. ED (2024), where the Court held non-furnishing of grounds before Pankaj Bansal was not illegal. The case, listed for July 18, 2025, will clarify whether such safeguards apply retrospectively.
