Bengaluru, Nov. 3 -- The Karnataka High Court has ruled that Maharashtra's Vadgaon police acted unlawfully in seizing business records from a tobacco products firm's office in Tumakuru and issuing notices summoning its representatives for questioning outside the police station's jurisdiction.

Justice Suraj Govindaraj partly allowed petitions filed by Shiv Enterprises and others, challenging the actions of Maharashtra police. The court held that notices issued under Section 179 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) could not be used to compel persons outside the concerned police station's territorial limits to appear in Vadgaon.

The matter originated in August 2025, when Maharashtra police intercepted a lorry transporting proh...