Category: Fundamental Rights
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Prevention of Money Laundering Act and its Gainsaying with Fundamental Rights
Introduction Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 is one of the legislation, whose provisions have been frequently challenged to be arbitrary and violative of Fundamental Rights of the citizens. The legislature has diligently maintained the arbitrary feature of the Act through amendments under the garb of “serious nature of the crime of money laundering”. The…
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“Restitution of Conjugal Rights OR Deprivation of Privacy Rights”?
Marriage is defined as “the civil status, condition, or relation of one man and one woman united in law for life, for the discharge to each other and the community of the duties legally incumbent on those whose association is founded on the distinction of sex”[1]. Marriage is the union of a man and woman…
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Right to Privacy – A Fundamental Right
The Supreme Court of India’s judgment in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd) vs Union of India[1] was a milestone in the history of democratic India. The wordings of the judgement are as follows: “The right to privacy is protected as an intrinsic part of the right to life and personal liberty under Article 21 and as…
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Beginning of a new epoch for Muslim women
Recently with the verdict of the Supreme Court calling the practice of triple talaq as unconstitutional has paved a golden way towards religious reforms in the Muslim personal laws against the practices that were derogatory to a woman’s dignity. BUT this is just a beginning. Much has to be done; though we cannot deny it…
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RTI – A powerful tool of Democratic India
Art. 19(1)(a) of the Constitution of India ensures that all the citizens of India shall have the right to freedom of speech and expression. It implies that every citizen has the right to express his/her views and opinions, openly and freely, without any fear or constraint, through any mode of his/her choice, even by way…
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Homosexuals Too Have Rights – They are not demanding something ADDITIONAL!
We often say that there is gender inequality amongst men and women and that’s true. But what about the third gender that has been given a due recognition by Supreme Court of India[1]. This so called third gender is not even accepted by majority of the people in the society, talking about its dignity, rights…
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