<h1>Petition seeks enforceable right to lawyer during police and probe-agency questioning under Articles 20(3), 21 and 22(1)</h1> The Supreme Court has sought responses from the Centre, states and union territories to a public interest petition seeking declaration that persons have a fundamental, non-discretionary right to have a lawyer present during police or probe-agency interrogation, grounded in Articles 20(3), 21 and 22(1) of the Constitution. The petition alleges routine denial or restricted 'visible but not audible' access to counsel, cites patterns of custodial torture, and challenges provisions in statutes like PMLA and NDPS that permit interrogation without effective legal assistance. It seeks directions to recognize the right to counsel during questioning, to frame guidelines ensuring access, and to mandate notice of the right to silence and counsel.