Privacy is an undisputed right of a person who is intimately linked to his or her life. When privacy is mistreated or invaded illegitimately by wrongdoers, it becomes a source of contention. Self-inflicted privacy violations are less effective than those perpetrated by a third party. The revealing of private information by a third party causes…
Constitutional morality is barely a new idea. It is composed generally in the actual Constitution like in the section of Fundamental Rights (Article 12 to 35), Directive Principle of State Policy (Article 36 to 51), Preamble and Fundamental duties. As per Dr. Ambedkar, Constitutional morality would mean viable coordination between clashing interests of various individuals…
Fundamental Duties are provided under Part IV-A of the Constitution. Part IV-A contains only one article, i.e. Article 51-A. Fundamental Duties are provided as a reminder to the citizens that while there are fundamental rights of every citizen, there are some duties which every citizen must perform. The Article 51-A provides 10 Fundamental Duties for…
The vitality of fundamental rights is stated in our constitution. Part III of the constitution covers all the traditional civil and political rights enumerated in the universal declaration of human rights. Dr B R Ambedkar described them as the most citizen part of the constitution. They were considered essential to protect the liberties and rights…
Article 13: Laws in derogation with fundamental rights will be void Article 13 expressly sets the principle of the supremacy of fundamental rights over any other law in the case of inconsistency between the two. This can easily interpret the intention of the constitution makers to confine the application of fundamental rights to what Laws…
Introduction Before 1971, there was no definition of contempt of court. But after the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 “contempt of court” was defined for the first time. Even the definition which is given in the Contempt of Courts Act is not a proper definition but is more like a classification or categorization of contempt…
The Doctrine of Eclipse is based on the notion that a legislation that violates Fundamental Rights is not null and void from the start, but only becomes unenforceable, or stagnates. “It is overshadowed by Fundamental Rights and sleeps, but it is not dead.” Such laws aren’t completely eliminated from the legislation. If a law is…
State emergency is defined under article 356 of the Indian constitution and article 356 is based on the section 93 of the government of India act 1935. state emergency is also known as constitutional emergency or presidential emergency. State emergency can only be declared by the honourable president of the country. State emergency can be…
Article 370 of the Indian constitution is a temporary provision which grant special autonomous status to Jammu and Kashmir. Under part 21 of the constitution of India which deals with temporary, transitional and special provisions which was enjoyed by people of Jammu and Kashmir. The state of Jammu and Kashmir had been accorded special status…
The Constitution of India is regarded as the lengthiest written constitution of any sovereign nation in the world. When the Constitution was first written, it consisted of 395 articles which were divided in 22 parts and 8 schedules. Currently, it has a preamble which guarantees India to be a sovereign, socialist, secular and democratic republic…
