On 15 December 2023, a coordinate bench of the Supreme Court read Section 19 of the PMLA to require that the written grounds of arrest be furnished within 24 hours of arrest rather than at the instant of arrest, and held that Pankaj Bansal operates prospectively — so arrests made before 3 October 2023 are not vitiated for want of contemporaneous written grounds. The essential qualifier that narrows the Pankaj Bansal safeguard.