Police cannot attach immovable properties during investigation of criminal case: SC

The Supreme Court today said that police cannot attach immovable properties during investigation of a criminal case. A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna upheld the Bombay High Court verdict which was challenged by the



Maharashtra government.

The High Court had said in its majority verdict that Section 102 of Criminal Procedure Code, does not include the power of police to seize and attach immovable properties.