UAPA

Sections 13 (unlawful activities), 16 (terrorist act), 17 (raising funds for terrorist acts), 18 (conspiracy), and 22(C) (offences by companies, trusts) 43A and 43B of the UAPA mandate the furnishing of the grounds of arrest to an accused at the earliest.

Pankaj Bansal versus Union of India and Others (2023) wherein it was held that to give effect to constitutional safeguards, “it would be necessary, henceforth, that a copy of such written grounds of arrest is furnished to the arrested person as a matter of course and without exception.”

the UAPA required the police to only “inform” the accused of the reasons for arrest, without needing to provide them in writing to him.

Article 22(1) of the Constitution, which dictates that no person who is arrested can be detained in custody without being promptly informed of the grounds for their arrest

further stipulates that an arrested person cannot be denied “the right to consult, and to be defended by, a legal practitioner of his choice.”

The Bench also differentiated between the meaning of the terms ‘reasons of arrest’ and ‘grounds of arrest’. While the former relates to general parameters based on which a person had to be arrested, the latter requires the police to list out specific facts necessitating the arrest of the individual concerned, so that he/she could effectively oppose the plea for remand or seek bail

Delhi LG VK Saxena gave his nod for invoking Section 13 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for the same set of speeches made by Arundati roy and sheikh showkat hussain in a case dating back to 2010.

Earlier he made sanction order under section 196 of CrPC.

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