(1) A person who is arrested or detained
or any one on his or her behalf may file a petition in the Supreme
Court, High Court or District Court for the writ of habeas corpus.
(2) If a person files a petition in more than one court, the
petition filed in the higher court shall be maintained.
(3) If a person commit or there is sufficient suspicion that
he or she is going to commit any act in contravention of this
Chapter, the person aggrieved from such an act may, for the
enforcement of his or her right, file a petition in the High Court or
District Court having territorial jurisdiction.
(4) If it is found from inquiry into the petition filed
pursuant to sub-section (1) that the person has been arrested or
detained against law, the concerned court shall order to release him
or her immediately.
(5) If it is found from inquiry in respect of the petition
filed pursuant to sub-section (3) that the respondent has caused
some damage or is about to cause damage to the petitioner's right,
the concerned court may issue an order requiring the respondent to
refrain from committing, or causing to be committed, any act
damaging the petitioner’s right, and where some act has already
been committed, from committing, or causing to be committed, the
remaining act, or to do any act.