Principle of Natural Justice
Constitutional Provisions
- Preamble: It mentions equality of status and of opportunity, which not only ensures fairness in socioeconomical activities of the people but also acts as shield to individual’s liberty against the arbitrary action (base for principles of Natural Justice).
- Article 14: This Article guarantees equality before law and equal protection of law.
- Article 21: It ensures that due process of law procedure must satisfy certain requisites in the sense of being fair and reasonable. The procedure cannot be arbitrary, unfair or unreasonable.
Judicial Pronouncements: The Supreme Court pronouncement of “due process of Law “in Maneka Gandhi case (1978), court asserted the ....
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Indian Polity And Governance
- 1 NITI Aayog@10: Fostering Cooperative Federalism
- 2 Doctrine of Constitutional Morality: Interpretation in Recent Supreme Court Rulings
- 3 Caste Census and the Constitutional Mandate for Equality
- 4 16th Finance Commission & Fiscal Federalism
- 5 Legislative Competence in New Tech Sectors
- 6 Separation of Powers: Recent Legislative vs. Judicial Standoffs
- 7 Consumer Protection & Digital Markets
- 8 Electoral Funding & Transparency
- 9 Constitutional Interpretation and Advisory Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court
- 10 Anti-Defection Law & Speaker’s Role

