How the Supreme Court limited the power of arrest under GST, Customs Acts

The court in Radhika Agarwal v Union of India ruled that the powers exercised by custom officers under these acts are “analogous” to the powers of arrest, search and seizure exercised by police, that is, they are subject to the same restrictions and procedural standards that apply to police under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. Among other things, these procedural standards include the right…