Indian Constitution Articles

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Important articles of constitution

ARTICLE 20: PROTECTION IN RESPECT OF CONVICTION FOR OFFENSES

(1) No person shall be convicted of any offense except for violation of a law in force at the time of the commission of the act charged as an offense, not be subjected to a penalty greater than that which might have been inflicted under the law in force at the time of the commission of the offense.
(2)No person shall be prosecuted and punished for the same offense more than once.
(3)No person accused of any offense shall be compelled to be a witness against himself.

ARTICLE 21: PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PERSONAL LIBERTY

No person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law

Article 21A:  Right to education

The State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years in such manner as the State may, by law, determine.

ARTICLE 22: PROTECTION AGAINST ARREST AND DETENTION IN CERTAIN CASES

(1) No person who is arrested shall be detained in custody without being informed, as soon as may not be, of the grounds for such arrest nor shall he is denied the right to consult 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 court of the magistrate and no such person shall be detained in custody beyond the said period without the authority of a magistrate.
(3) 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 the person the grounds on which the order has been made

 (4) 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

(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).

ARTICLE 23: PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC INHUMAN BEINGS AND FORCED LABOUR

(1) Traffic in human beings and the beggar and other similar forms of forced labor are prohibited and any contravention of this provision shall be an offense punishable in accordance with the 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 the ground only of religion, race, caste or class or any of them.

ARTICLE 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. Every child must be given the right to education and child labor should be prohibited.

ARTICLE 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, practice 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;
(b) providing for social welfare and reform or the throwing open of Hindu religious institutions of a public character to all classes and sections of Hindus.
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