The doctrine of eclipse means that an existing law inconsistent with a Fundamental Right, though becomes inoperative from the date of the commencement of the Constitution, is not...
The Indian Constitution guarantees essential human rights in the form of Fundamental Rights under Part III. It protects substantive as well as procedural rights. The Fundamental Rights in...
The right to speech also implies the right to silence. It implies freedom, not to listen, and not to be forced to listen. The right comprehends the freedom...
In a catena of cases, the Supreme Court has exposed the cruelty of the system of Prison Administration in India, and sought to humanize it. Time and again,...
In Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India the Supreme Court liberally interpreted the Fundamental Rights guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution. It held that under Article 21,...
The validity of a law infringing Fundamental Rights can be judged not only with references to a particular article under which such a law is enacted but also...
A statute based on a reasonable classification does not become invalid merely because the class to which it applies consists of only one person. A single body or...
In Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India the Supreme Court has held that Fundamental Rights should be given widest possible interpretation. In the present case, Justice Bhagwati observed...
Unconstitutionality of a statute means that a law is void if it is inconsistent with the Fundamental Rights. A void statute is unenforceable, non est, and devoid of...
