Article 22

Article 22 provides that no person who is arrested shall be detained in custody without being informed of the grounds for such arrest.

No arrested person can be denied the right to consult and to be defended by a legal practitioner of his choice.

Every person who is arrested and detained in custody is to produced before the nearest magistrate within a period of twenty- four hours of arrest excluding the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the court of the magistrate and no such person can be detained in custody beyond that period without the authority of a magistrate.

The above safeguard is not available to an enemy alien and a person arrested or detained under a law providing for preventive detention.

The Constitution authorizes the Legislature to make laws for Preventive detention for the security of State, the maintenance of public order, or the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the community, or for reasons connected with Defense and Foreign Affairs {Ref: Art.22}

 Article 23 provides Right against Exploitation in following respects:

Traffic in human beings and beggar and other similar forms of forced labour are prohibited.

The state can impose compulsory service for public purposes, and in imposing such service the state cannot make any discrimination on grounds only of religion, race, caste or class or any of them.

Special provision for the protection of children is made in Art. 24 which provides that no child below the age of fourteen years can be employed to work in any factory or mine or engaged in any other hazardous employment.

Article 25-28 provides Right to Freedom of Religion.

Article 25 provides freedom of conscience and free profession, practice and propagation of religion subject to public order, morality and health.

Under Art. 25 State can regulate religious activities and provide for social reforms and throw open Hindu religious institutions of public character to all sections of Hindus.