The police should not have any problem in informing family members following an arrest, said the Supreme Court yesterday.

It also asked the police, magistrates and judges concerned what is the difficulty in conveying the family members about the arrest.

Besides, the law enforcers should not have any objection in making a memorandum of arrest, including taking signatures of arrestees and conveying their families about detention.

All this should be done for the sake of transparency, the SC told the attorney general while hearing a review petition.

Attorney General AM Amin Uddin told the court that there is no provision of law in making memorandum of arrest after detaining people.

A seven-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique was holding hearing of the review petition filed by the government challenging its 2016 judgement.

It upheld the 2003 High Court verdict against the arbitrary exercise of power by law enforcers using few sections of the CrPC, including section 54.

Section 54 empowers police to arrest anyone on mere suspicion. Under several other sections of the criminal law, arrestees are placed on remand and detained in violation of their fundamental rights to protection of life and liberty, it said.