Keeping a Person in Police Custody Under the Guise of 'Voluntary Cooperation' Violates Article 22: Chhattisgarh High Court
The Chhattisgarh High Court has delivered a landmark judgment emphasizing the importance of constitutional safeguards under Article 22 of the Constitution of India. The Court held that police authorities cannot detain a person claiming he is voluntarily cooperating with the police to bypass the protections against arbitrary arrest. This decision was pronounced by a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal while hearing a writ…
