The Constitution of India
Protection against arrest and detention in certain cases
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arrested shall be detained in custody without being informed, as soon as may be, of the
grounds for such arrest nor shall he be denied the right to consult, and to be defended by, a
legal practitioner of his choice.
(2) Every person who is arrested and detained in custody shall be produced before the
nearest magistrate within a period of twenty-four hours of such arrest excluding the time
necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the court of the magistrate and no such
person shall be detained in custody beyond the said period without the authority of a
magistrate.
(3) Nothing in clauses (1) and (2) shall apply—
(a) to any person who for the time being is an enemy alien; or
1. Inserted by the Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2002, s. 2 (w.e.f. 1.4.2010).
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(b) to any person who is arrested or detained under any law providing for
preventive detention.
(4) No law providing for preventive detention shall authorise the detention of a person
for a longer period than three months unless—
(a) an Advisory Board consisting of persons who are, or have been, or are
qualified to be appointed as, Judges of a High Court has reported before the expiration
of the said period of three months that there is in its opinion sufficient cause for such
detention:
Provided that nothing in this sub-clause shall authorise the detention of any
person beyond the maximum period prescribed by any law made by Parliament under
sub-clause (b) of clause (7); or
(b) such person is detained in accordance with the provisions of any law made by
Parliament under sub-clauses (a) and (b) of clause (7).
(5) When any person is detained in pursuance of an order made under any law
providing for preventive detention, the authority making the order shall, as soon as may be,
communicate to such person the grounds on which the order has been made and shall afford
him the earliest opportunity of making a representation against the order.
(6) Nothing in clause (5) shall require the authority making any such order as is
referred to in that clause to disclose facts which such authority considers to be against the
public interest to disclose.
(7) Parliament may by law prescribe—
[(a) the circumstances under which, and the class or classes of cases in which, a
person may be detained for a period longer than three months under any law providing
for preventive detention without obtaining the opinion of an Advisory Board in
accordance with the provisions of sub-clause (a) of clause (4)];
**
(b) the maximum period for which any person may in any class or classes of
cases be detained under any law providing for preventive detention; and
On the commencement of s.3 of the Constitution (Forty-fourth Amendment) Act, 1978, clause (4) of article 22 shall
stand amended as directed in s.3 of that Act. For the text of that Act, see Appendix- II (date of enforcement yet to be
notified).
Sub-clause (a) shall stand omitted by ibid, for the text of that Act, see Appendix-II (date of enforcement yet to be
notified).
**Sub-clause (b) shall stand re-lettered as sub-clause (a) by ibid, for the text of that Act, see Appendix-II (date of
enforcement yet to be notified).
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(c) the procedure to be followed by an Advisory Board in an inquiry under
[sub-clause (a) of clause (4)].
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