" Anyone who 1s deprived of his liberty by arrest or detention shall be entitled to take proceedings before a Court, in order that Court may decide without delay on the lawfulness of his detention and order his release if the detention is not lawful." The act of applying for bail is thus a fundamental right of any person arrested and detained by a State or its Agents. The facts of this case as presented by the Applicant has been summarized above. His contention here is that he applied for and was granted bail by the Courts before which he was arraigned. On satisfying the bail conditions he was ordered to be released from custody. He then applied for and was granted leave to travel for medical treatment but was not able to do that because the Agents of the Defendant barricaded all entrances and exits to and from his house. He was subsequently rearrested on fresh charges and arraigned before a high Court. Again he applied for and was granted bail on conditions which he fulfilled. He was again ordered to be released but the defendants agents intercepted him in the prison and detained him in undisclosed location in complete disregard of the Court Order. The Applicant is now asking this Court to declare his arrest and detention as unlawful and arbitrary and a violation of his human rights to personal liberty and security. The concept of arbitrariness under Article 9 of UDHR has been severally examined with a consensus that it imposes a larger international standard on the context of the domestic laws providing both substantive and procedural protection from arrest and detention. 41

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