India, Nov. 7 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed the interim bail granted on April 22 to Shivani Agarwal, who had spent over ten months in judicial custody for allegedly tampering with the blood samples of her 17-year-old son in the Pune Porsche hit-and-run case.

The bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) B.R. Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih held that the requirement to provide written grounds of arrest applies to all offences under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), and not just under special laws such as the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) or the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).

The court emphasised that failure to furnish written grounds of arrest, in a language unders...