Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Polity and Constitution

With reference to Article 22, consider the following statements:

  1. A person arrested under an ordinary law has the right to be informed of the grounds of arrest and to consult a legal practitioner.
  2. The safeguards governing arrest under an ordinary law are not available to an enemy alien or to a person detained under a preventive detention law.
  3. Protection under preventive detention law is available to citizens as well as aliens.
  4. The reduction from three months to two months in the period of preventive detention without an advisory board’s opinion is presently operative.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

  1. 1 and 2 only
  2. 1 and 3 only
  3. 2 and 4 only
  4. 1, 2 and 3 only
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