India, Nov. 7 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed the ad-interim bail granted on April 22 to Shivani Agarwal, who had been in judicial custody for over ten months for allegedly switching the blood samples of her 17-year-old son involved in the Pune Porsche crash case.

The bench of Justice BR 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 Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 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 failure to furnish written grounds of arrest, in a language understood by the ...