Protection against arrest and detention in certain cases

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...., 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....

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....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 t....

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.... cases be detained under any law providing for preventive detention; and (c) the procedure to be followed by an Advisory Board in an inquiry under 4[sub-clause (a) of clause (4).]   ***************** NOTES:- 1. Amendments yet to be notified: vide Constitution (Forty-fourth Amendment) Act, 1978 Hence, Article 22 remains in its original form, and the propos....

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....e serving or retired Judges of any High Court: Provided further that nothing in this clause shall authorise the detention of any person beyond the maximum period prescribed by any law made by Parliament under sub-clause (a) of clause (7). Explanation.-In this clause, "appropriate High Court" means,- (i) in the case of the detention of a person in pursuance of an order of....