Power to arrest must be used sparingly: ASG to ED officials

Additional solicitor general (ASG) SV Raju on Thursday asked Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers not to make arrests in money-laundering cases "hastily" as this would not yield them good results in courts, and advised them to rather use their powers to arrest sparingly and at a later stage of investigation.

- Neeraj Chauhan

NEW DELHI:

Speaking at an ED Day event at Bharat Mandapam in Delhi, ASG Raju, who represents the federal agency in multiple high-profile cases, emphasised that the provision of arrest is "very crucial" for all agencies that carry out investigations as often, it is the threat of arrest that makes a person disclose certain things.