{"id":71026,"date":"2025-02-28T18:58:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T13:28:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-02-28T18:58:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T13:28:45","slug":"powers-to-arrest-under-customs-act-and-gst-laws-valid-with-new-safeguards-right-to-counsel-during-interrogation-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=71026","title":{"rendered":"Powers to Arrest Under Customs Act and GST Laws Valid with New Safeguards: Right to Counsel During Interrogation Limited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Powers to Arrest Under Customs Act and GST Laws Valid with New Safeguards: Right to Counsel During Interrogation Limited<br \/>Case-Laws<br \/>GST<br \/>SC upheld constitutional validity of arrest powers under Customs Act and GST Acts while establishing key procedural safeguards. Person arrested has right to meet advocate during interrogation but not throughout. Officers must have material evidence and &#8220;reasons to believe&#8221; before arrest, documented in writing. Arrest powers subject to judicial review bot<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/highlights?id=86127\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powers to Arrest Under Customs Act and GST Laws Valid with New Safeguards: Right to Counsel During Interrogation LimitedCase-LawsGSTSC upheld constitutional validity of arrest powers under Customs Act and GST Acts while establishing key procedural safegua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}