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}
