India, April 21 -- Delhi Police commissioner Sanjay Arora has directed all investigating officers (IOs) to mandatorily include "grounds of arrest" in their arrest memorandums and communicate the same in writing to those being arrested to ensure that they can defend themselves when police seek custody remand in court and also when they want to seek bail, officials aware of the development said.

A police officer, not wishing to be identified, said IOs were filling up arrest memos but usually furnished the reason for arrest in court while seeking police custody remand or opposing bail plea.

"Let alone the 'grounds of arrest', even the 'reason for the arrest' was not being communicated to the arrested person in writing by IOs, as we all fol...