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AIR 1978 SC 597
Article 14 strikes at arbitrariness in State action and ensures fairness and equality of
Indian case law by case name, citation, provision or legal issue, with the case summary, the judgment text where we hold it and the provisions it applies.
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Supreme Court of Indiaundefined undefined NaNFull textCited by 2
AIR 1978 SC 597
Article 14 strikes at arbitrariness in State action and ensures fairness and equality of
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Supreme Court of India17 Jan 2019Full text
2019 INSC 52 · [2019] 1 S.C.R. 371
Immediately after the decision in Maneka Gandhi [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248] another Constitution Bench of this Court rendered decision in Sunil Batra v. State (UT of Delhi) [Sunil Batra v. State … Union of India, (1970) 1 SCC 248] and Maneka H 416 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [2019] 1 S.C.R. A Gandhi [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248] the consequences are the same. The Constitution Bench
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Supreme Court of Indiaundefined undefined NaNFull textCited by 1
(2017) 9 SCC 1
Bank Nationalisation case [Rustom Cavasjee Cooper (Banks 369 Nationalisation) v. Union of India, (1970) 1 SCC 248] and Maneka Gandhi case [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 2 SCR 621: (1978) 1 SCC 248] .… In Bachan Singh … the majority, said that if Article 21 is understood in accordance with the interpretation put upon it in Maneka Gandhi [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 2 SCR 621 : (1978) 1 SCC 248], it will read
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Supreme Court of Indiaundefined undefined NaNFull textCited by 1
(2017) 10 SCC 1
Constitution; the same consequence ensued after the decisions in the Bank Nationalisation case ( 1970) 1 SCC 248, and Maneka Gandhi case (1978) 1 SCC 248.… In Bachan Singh ( Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab , (1980) 2 SCC … the majority, said that if Article 21 is understood in accordance with the interpretation put upon it in Maneka Gandhi, it will read to say that: (SCC p.730, para 136) “136. No person shall be deprived of his
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Supreme Court of India1950Cited by 1
AIR 1950 SC 27
interpretation of 'procedure established by law' as any state-enacted law without natural justice (later formally overruled by Maneka Gandhi
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Supreme Court of India18 Aug 2011Full text
2011 INSC 590 · [2011] 12 S.C.R. 191
But the said interpretation does no longer hold good after the epoch making decision of this Court in Maneka Gandhi (supra), where this Court held the law does not mean any enacted piece. According to the majority decision … Maneka Gandhi (supra) "law is reasonable law not any enacted piece" B (para 85 page 338 of the report) 30. In Maneka Gandhi (supra) this Court held that the expression 'procedure established by law' in Article 21 means
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Supreme Court of India26 Sep 2018Full text
2018 INSC 880 · [2018] 8 S.C.R. 1
liable to be tested. Under Article 21, the standard test at present is the rationality review expressed in Maneka Gandhi case [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 F SCC 248] . This requires that any procedure … State interferes with an Article 21 right to be “fair, just and reasonable, not fanciful, oppressive or arbitrary” [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248 at p. 323, para 48]. R.F. Nariman
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Supreme Court of India9 Aug 2011Full text
2011 INSC 554 · [2011] 13 S.C.R. 636
amputation of his personal liberty. Therefore, land reform law, if unreasonable, violates Article 21 as expansively construed in Maneka Gandhi. The dichotomy between personal liberty, in Article 21, and proprietary status, in Articles 31 and 19 is plain … the absence of mention of Article 21 in Article 31-A and the illusory hope of inflating Maneka Gandhi to impart a healing touch to those whose property is taken by feigning loss of personal liberty when the
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Supreme Court of India2 Sep 2014Full text
2014 INSC 590 · [2014] 11 S.C.R. 1009
Close on the heels of Maneka Gandhi's case came Mithu vs. State of Punjab, (1983) 2 SCC 277, in which case the Court noted as follows: H 1030 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [2014) 11 S.C.R. • A "In Sunil … the same consequence ensued after the decisions in the Bank Nationalisation's case (1970) 1 sec 248 and Maneka Gandhi's case (1978) 1 sec 248 .... c In Bachan Singh which upheld the constitutional validity ol · the death
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Supreme Court of India28 Sep 2011Full text
2011 INSC 722 · [2011] 15 S.C.R. 92
Maharashtra and another (AIR 1967 SC 1), Rustom Cavasjee Cooper v. Union of India [(1970) 1 SCC 248), Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India and another [(1978) 1 sec 248) and several other decisions. H 122 SUPREME COURT … held that in the evolving mosaic of our Constitutional Jurisprudence, specially after the decision of this Court in Maneka Gandhi (supra), Article 21 of the Constitution which guarantees life and B personal liberty has to be interpreted differently
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Supreme Court of India23 Nov 2017Full text
2017 INSC 1137 · [2017] 12 S.C.R. 358
Imnlediately after the decision in Maneka Gandhi ((1978) I SCC 248] another Constitution Bench of this Court rendered decision in Sunil Batra v. Delhi Admn. ((1978) 4 SCC 494: 1979 SCC (Cri) 155) specifically acknowl~dged that even … Constitution text, but after the decision of this Court in Rustom Cavasjee Cooper [(1970) 1 SCC 248] and Maneka Gandhi [(1978) 1 SCC 248] the consequences are the same. The Constitution Bench of this Court in Sunil Batra
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Supreme Court of India2 Aug 2024Full text
2024 INSC 567 · [2024] 8 S.C.R. 662
provision contained in Section 438 must be saved, not jettisoned. No doubt can linger after the decision in Maneka Gandhi [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248], that in order to meet the challenge
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Supreme Court of India3 Feb 2023Full text
2023 INSC 99 · [2023] 5 S.C.R. 243
equality and the Preamble of the Constitution E which is an integral part and scheme of the Constitution. Maneka Gandhi [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248] ratio extricated it from this moribund and put
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Supreme Court of India4 Jul 2023Full text
2023 INSC 596 · [2023] 9 S.C.R. 1165
provision contained in Section 438 must be saved, not jettisoned. No doubt can linger after the decision in Maneka Gandhi [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248], that in order to meet
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Supreme Court of India6 Dec 2021Full text
2021 INSC 828 · [2021] 13 S.C.R. 231
Union of India[Rustom Cavasjee Cooper v. Union D of India, (1970) 1 SCC 248] and followed in Maneka Gandhi [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC
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Supreme Court of India5 Apr 2023Full text
2023 INSC 324 · [2023] 10 S.C.R. 595
and (iv) an orderly course of procedure. Justice Fazl Ali’s opinion was followed by this Court in Maneka Gandhi (supra). In Maneka Gandhi (supra), it was held that the life and liberty of a person cannot
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Bombay High Court25 Aug 2026Full text
BA/4097/2025
Constitution]. At present, Article 21 is the repository of a vast number of substantive and procedural rights post Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC
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Supreme Court of India4 Feb 2025Full text
2025 INSC 225 · [2025] 2 S.C.R. 1890
Constitution of India makes it clear that the procedure in criminal trials must, after the seminal decision in Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248] , be “right, just and
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Supreme Court of India9 Dec 2024Full text
2024 INSC 947 · [2024] 12 S.C.R. 574
and not merely a matter of procedure established by law. This was the consequence of the judgment in Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India (1978) 1 SCC 248] which made the content
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Supreme Court of India11 Aug 2023Full text
2023 INSC 703 · [2023] 11 S.C.R. 95
the Constitution,… This obligation fl ows from the law laid down by this Court inter alia in Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248] , Hussainara Khatoon (I) v. State
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Supreme Court of India17 Jan 2019Full text
2019 INSC 52 · [2019] 1 S.C.R. 371
Immediately after the decision in Maneka Gandhi [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248] another Constitution Bench of this Court rendered decision in Sunil Batra v. State (UT of Delhi) [Sunil Batra v. State … Union of India, (1970) 1 SCC 248] and Maneka H 416 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [2019] 1 S.C.R. A Gandhi [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248] the consequences are the same. The Constitution Bench
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Supreme Court of Indiaundefined undefined NaNFull textCited by 1
(2017) 9 SCC 1
Bank Nationalisation case [Rustom Cavasjee Cooper (Banks 369 Nationalisation) v. Union of India, (1970) 1 SCC 248] and Maneka Gandhi case [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 2 SCR 621: (1978) 1 SCC 248] .… In Bachan Singh … the majority, said that if Article 21 is understood in accordance with the interpretation put upon it in Maneka Gandhi [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 2 SCR 621 : (1978) 1 SCC 248], it will read
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Supreme Court of Indiaundefined undefined NaNFull textCited by 1
(2017) 10 SCC 1
Constitution; the same consequence ensued after the decisions in the Bank Nationalisation case ( 1970) 1 SCC 248, and Maneka Gandhi case (1978) 1 SCC 248.… In Bachan Singh ( Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab , (1980) 2 SCC … the majority, said that if Article 21 is understood in accordance with the interpretation put upon it in Maneka Gandhi, it will read to say that: (SCC p.730, para 136) “136. No person shall be deprived of his
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Supreme Court of India1950Cited by 1
AIR 1950 SC 27
interpretation of 'procedure established by law' as any state-enacted law without natural justice (later formally overruled by Maneka Gandhi
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Supreme Court of India18 Aug 2011Full text
2011 INSC 590 · [2011] 12 S.C.R. 191
But the said interpretation does no longer hold good after the epoch making decision of this Court in Maneka Gandhi (supra), where this Court held the law does not mean any enacted piece. According to the majority decision … Maneka Gandhi (supra) "law is reasonable law not any enacted piece" B (para 85 page 338 of the report) 30. In Maneka Gandhi (supra) this Court held that the expression 'procedure established by law' in Article 21 means
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Supreme Court of India26 Sep 2018Full text
2018 INSC 880 · [2018] 8 S.C.R. 1
liable to be tested. Under Article 21, the standard test at present is the rationality review expressed in Maneka Gandhi case [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 F SCC 248] . This requires that any procedure … State interferes with an Article 21 right to be “fair, just and reasonable, not fanciful, oppressive or arbitrary” [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248 at p. 323, para 48]. R.F. Nariman
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Supreme Court of India9 Aug 2011Full text
2011 INSC 554 · [2011] 13 S.C.R. 636
amputation of his personal liberty. Therefore, land reform law, if unreasonable, violates Article 21 as expansively construed in Maneka Gandhi. The dichotomy between personal liberty, in Article 21, and proprietary status, in Articles 31 and 19 is plain … the absence of mention of Article 21 in Article 31-A and the illusory hope of inflating Maneka Gandhi to impart a healing touch to those whose property is taken by feigning loss of personal liberty when the
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Supreme Court of India2 Sep 2014Full text
2014 INSC 590 · [2014] 11 S.C.R. 1009
Close on the heels of Maneka Gandhi's case came Mithu vs. State of Punjab, (1983) 2 SCC 277, in which case the Court noted as follows: H 1030 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [2014) 11 S.C.R. • A "In Sunil … the same consequence ensued after the decisions in the Bank Nationalisation's case (1970) 1 sec 248 and Maneka Gandhi's case (1978) 1 sec 248 .... c In Bachan Singh which upheld the constitutional validity ol · the death
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Supreme Court of India28 Sep 2011Full text
2011 INSC 722 · [2011] 15 S.C.R. 92
Maharashtra and another (AIR 1967 SC 1), Rustom Cavasjee Cooper v. Union of India [(1970) 1 SCC 248), Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India and another [(1978) 1 sec 248) and several other decisions. H 122 SUPREME COURT … held that in the evolving mosaic of our Constitutional Jurisprudence, specially after the decision of this Court in Maneka Gandhi (supra), Article 21 of the Constitution which guarantees life and B personal liberty has to be interpreted differently
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Supreme Court of India23 Nov 2017Full text
2017 INSC 1137 · [2017] 12 S.C.R. 358
Imnlediately after the decision in Maneka Gandhi ((1978) I SCC 248] another Constitution Bench of this Court rendered decision in Sunil Batra v. Delhi Admn. ((1978) 4 SCC 494: 1979 SCC (Cri) 155) specifically acknowl~dged that even … Constitution text, but after the decision of this Court in Rustom Cavasjee Cooper [(1970) 1 SCC 248] and Maneka Gandhi [(1978) 1 SCC 248] the consequences are the same. The Constitution Bench of this Court in Sunil Batra
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Supreme Court of India2 Aug 2024Full text
2024 INSC 567 · [2024] 8 S.C.R. 662
provision contained in Section 438 must be saved, not jettisoned. No doubt can linger after the decision in Maneka Gandhi [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248], that in order to meet the challenge
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Supreme Court of India3 Feb 2023Full text
2023 INSC 99 · [2023] 5 S.C.R. 243
equality and the Preamble of the Constitution E which is an integral part and scheme of the Constitution. Maneka Gandhi [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248] ratio extricated it from this moribund and put
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Supreme Court of India4 Jul 2023Full text
2023 INSC 596 · [2023] 9 S.C.R. 1165
provision contained in Section 438 must be saved, not jettisoned. No doubt can linger after the decision in Maneka Gandhi [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248], that in order to meet
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Supreme Court of India6 Dec 2021Full text
2021 INSC 828 · [2021] 13 S.C.R. 231
Union of India[Rustom Cavasjee Cooper v. Union D of India, (1970) 1 SCC 248] and followed in Maneka Gandhi [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC
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Supreme Court of India5 Apr 2023Full text
2023 INSC 324 · [2023] 10 S.C.R. 595
and (iv) an orderly course of procedure. Justice Fazl Ali’s opinion was followed by this Court in Maneka Gandhi (supra). In Maneka Gandhi (supra), it was held that the life and liberty of a person cannot
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Bombay High Court25 Aug 2026Full text
BA/4097/2025
Constitution]. At present, Article 21 is the repository of a vast number of substantive and procedural rights post Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC
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Supreme Court of India4 Feb 2025Full text
2025 INSC 225 · [2025] 2 S.C.R. 1890
Constitution of India makes it clear that the procedure in criminal trials must, after the seminal decision in Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248] , be “right, just and
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Supreme Court of India9 Dec 2024Full text
2024 INSC 947 · [2024] 12 S.C.R. 574
and not merely a matter of procedure established by law. This was the consequence of the judgment in Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India (1978) 1 SCC 248] which made the content
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Supreme Court of India11 Aug 2023Full text
2023 INSC 703 · [2023] 11 S.C.R. 95
the Constitution,… This obligation fl ows from the law laid down by this Court inter alia in Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248] , Hussainara Khatoon (I) v. State
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