SC Clarifies Arrest Rules Under GST and Customs Acts

Radhika Agarwal Vs Union of India And Others (Supreme Court of India) SC order on legality of arrests made under the Customs Act, 1962, and the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 and power of arrest without prior judicial approval The Supreme Court of India has ruled that procedural safeguards under the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), now the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), must be followed in arrests made under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Customs Acts. The three-judge bench, comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justices M.M. Sundresh and Bela M. Trivedi, emp...