law: Prevention of Black Marketing and Maintenance of Supplies of Essential Commodities Act, 1980
  8. Grounds of order of detention to be disclosed to person
  
  affected by order
  (1) When a person is detained in pursuance of a detention order,
  
  the authority making the order shall, as soon as may be, but ordinarily not
  
  later than five days and in exceptional circumstances and for reasons to be
  
  recorded in writing, not later than ten days from the date of detention,
  
  communicate to him the grounds on which the order has been made and shall
  
  afford him the earliest opportunity of making a representation against the
  
  order to the appropriate government.
  (2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall require the authority to
  
  disclose facts which it considers to be against the public interest to
  
  disclose.
  Comment: It will be seen that right to represent has
  
  been given not only by Article 22(5) of the Constitution but also by Section 8
  
  of the Act. The right provided under the Act has, therefore, to be treated as
  
  an extension of the constitutional right already available to a  detenu under Article 22(5). The legislature has, in fact,
  
  given effect to the constitutional right by providing in Section 8 of the Act
  
  that the detenu shall have the right  of making
  
  a representation to the appropriate government. Kundanbhai 
  
   Dulabhai Shaikh v.  Distt . Magistrate, Ahmedabad , AIR
  
  1996 SUPREME COURT 2998