Continuing offence

Very Interesting ! Without having read or researched this aspect of law - but on pure reason and logic I feel it would be given a retrospective effect in light of it's nature/purpose. Fleeing from the law & avoiding a proclamation always used to attract penal consequences for eg : arrest without warrant anywhere in India/attachment of property. It always has been a contravention and illegal, it's just that it is made an offence it itself now further disincentivising and creating a deterrent effect. It was never legitimate, hence a retrospective interpretation shall serve the purpose of the act.

ya bharat, but the issue is not of retrospectivity. Once an offence is held to be continuous, you are engulfed by the penal law in its prospective application as you continue to commit the act which became an offence due to the new law!