- (a) an Advisory Board consisting of persons who are, or have been, or are qualified to be appointed as, Judges of a High Court has reported before the expiration of the said period of three months that there is in its opinion sufficient cause for such detention:
- Provided that nothing in this sub-clause shall authorise the detention of any person beyond the maximum period prescribed 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 to such person the grounds
on which the order has been made and shall afford him the earliest opportunity of making a representation against the order.
- (6) Nothing in clause (5) shall require the authority making any such order as is referred to in that clause to disclose facts which such authority considers to be against the public interest to disclose.
- (7) Parliament may by law prescribe—
- *[(a) the circumstances under which, and the class or classes of cases in which, a person may be detained for a period longer than three months under any law providing for preventive detention without obtaining the opinion of an Advisory Board in accordance with the provisions of sub clause (a) of clause (4)];
- **(b) the maximum period for which any person may in any class or classes of 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 ****[sub-clause (a) of clause (4)].
Right against Exploitation
23.Prohibition of traffic in human beings and forced labour.—(1) Traffic in human beings and begar and other similar forms of forced labour are prohibited and any contravention of this provision shall be an offence punishable in accordance with law.
- (2) Nothing in this article shall prevent the State from imposing compulsory service for public purposes, and in imposing such service the State shall not make any discrimination on grounds only of religion, race, caste or class or any of them.
24. Prohibition of employment of children in factories, etc.—No child below the age of fourteen years shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or engaged in any other hazardous employment.
Right to Freedom of Religion
25. Freedom of conscience and free profession, practice and propagation of religion.—(1) Subject to public order, morality and health and to the other provisions of this Part, all persons are equally entitled to freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess, practise and propagate religion.
- (2) Nothing in this article shall affect the operation of any existing law or prevent the State from making any law—
- (a) regulating or restricting any economic, financial, political or other secular activity which may be associated with religious practice;
*Sub-clause (a) shall stand omitted by the Constitution (Forty-fourth Amendment) Act, 1978, s. 3. For the text of that Act, see Appendix-II (date of enforcement yet to be notified).
** Sub-clause (b) shall stand re-lettered as sub-clause (a) by ibid. For the text of that Act, see Appendix-II (date of enforcement yet to be notified).
*** Sub-clause (c) shall stand re-lettered as sub-clause (b) by ibid. For the text of that Act, see Appendix-II (date of enforcement yet to be notified).
**** The words, letters, figures and brackets shall stand substituted as “clause (4)” by ibid. For the text of that Act, see Appendix-II (date of enforcement yet to be notified).
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