Source/Credit: Dailytimes on Line.
I have a serious issue with fundamental rights. Sometimes I feel that my definition of the term is totally delusional, given the respect that it commands in this country, and the true term is actually ‘fund-a-mental’, in its urban sense.
The more I read and the more I practice, I tend to become more delusional. I have always been an optimist with a liberal sprinkling of realism, now is that not an oxymoron, ‘optimistic realist’?! I read the constitution, with my deep rooted belief, again maybe delusional, in its supremacy. I read the judgements our honourable apex court hands down. And I dare to believe. And, to hope.
Our constitution tells us that we have the ‘inalienable right’ to enjoy the protection of law and to be treated in accordance with it. It specifically forbids any “action detrimental to the life, liberty, body, reputation or property of any person” except that which is in accordance with the law.
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