India, Feb. 14 -- The Bombay high court on Wednesday held that a delay of four minutes in communicating the grounds of arrest to an accused does not render the arrest illegal, while dismissing a petition filed by a Bhaindar resident booked by the Versova police in a rape case.

34-year-old Gunwant Tarachand Jain was arrested at 10:56pm on November 21, hours after a rape case had been registered against him at the Versova police station, and the grounds of arrest were communicated to him at 11pm, according to police records.

The next afternoon, he was produced before the Andheri magistrate court which declared his arrest illegal after noticing that the grounds of arrest were communicated by the police to him four minutes after formally pl...