TMI BlogProtection against arrest and detention in certain casesX X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 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 authori ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... f 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 s ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... cedure to be followed by an Advisory Board in an inquiry under 4 [sub-clause (a) of clause (4).] **************************** Notes : 1. Cl. (4) shall stand substituted by the Constitution (Forty-fourth Amendment) Act, 1978, s. 3 (which is yet not in force, date to be notified later on) as— "(4) No law providing for preventive detention shall authorise the detention of a person for a longer period ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... etention of a person in pursuance of an order of detention made by the Government of India or an officer or authority subordinate to that Government, the High Court for the Union territory of Delhi; (ii) in the case of the detention of a person in pursuance of an order of detention made by the Government of any State (other than a Union territory), the High Court for the State; and (iii) in the ca ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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