India, April 23 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved orders on whether the police must supply grounds of arrest to persons arrested for offences under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and non-supply of the same vitiates their arrest.

A bench comprising justices Bhushan R Gavai and justice AG Masih was confronted with this question while considering an appeal filed by Mihir Shah, the accused in the Worli BMW hit-and-run case in July 2024, where a woman was crushed under the wheels leading to her death while her husband survived the incident.

Shah claimed that he was not supplied with grounds of arrest either before his arrest or at the time he was taken into custody on July 9 last year. He argued that this went against the Supreme Court j...