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:
