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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 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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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 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 India24 Apr 2023Full text
2023 INSC 419 · [2023] 4 S.C.R. 512
may follow up the import of Maneka Gandhi and crystallise the conclusion. Maneka Gandhi case has laid down that personal liberty cannot be cut out or cut down without fair legal procedure. Enough has been set out
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Supreme Court of India21 Nov 2023Full text
2023 INSC 1013 · [2023] 16 S.C.R. 672
read the guarantees of fair procedure and non-arbitrariness as emanating from the decision of this Court in Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248] into the provisions
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Supreme Court of India13 Oct 2022Full text
2022 INSC 1085 · [2022] 5 S.C.R. 426
objectives and it is the duty of the Court to progressively realise the values of the Constitution. In Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248] , it has been held
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Supreme Court of India17 Oct 2023Full text
2023 INSC 920 · [2023] 16 S.C.R. 1209
judges, in All India Bank Employees Association v. National Industrial Tribunal62. That decision was quoted with approval in Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India (UOI) & Ors. , (hereafter, “Maneka Gandhi”)63: “This theory has been fi rmly rejected
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Supreme Court of India18 May 2023Full text
2023 INSC 548 · [2023] 7 S.C.R. 426
Others [(2015) 4 SCC 400], A.R. Antulay -vs- R.S. Nayak E and Another [(1988) 2 SCC 602] and Maneka Gandhi -vs- Union of India and Another [(1978) 1 SCC 248]. The judgment of the Maneka Gandhi (supra) was
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Supreme Court of India23 Jul 2025Full text
2025 INSC 884 · [2025] 7 S.C.R. 1371
afraid, it is rather late in the day to question the correctness of the landmark decision in Maneka Gandhi case and the innovative construction placed by Bhagwati, J. on Article 14 in the three cases of Royappa, Maneka
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Supreme Court of India8 Jul 2024Full text
2024 INSC 465 · [2024] 7 S.C.R. 246
Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248 [Bhagwati J, 29] 92 Prakash Jha v. Union of India (2011) 8 SCC 372 [8, 22-27] 93 Maneka Gandhi (supra), Indibly Creative (supra) [22, 28] 94 Indibly
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Supreme Court of India16 Aug 2022Full text
2022 INSC 835 · [2022] 18 S.C.R. 468
been the cynosure of special constitutional attention in Article 21, the fuller implications whereof have been unravelled in Maneka Gandhi case. When we read the signification of the right of appeal under Article E 134 we must remember … protection of life and personal liberty. Surely, law, in this setting, is a pregnant expression. Bhagwati, J., in Maneka Gandhi stated the position emphatically and since then this Court has followed that prescription and even developed
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Supreme Court of India25 Feb 2025Full text
2025 INSC 264 · [2025] 2 S.C.R. 2130
SCC OnLine SC 897; Parvez Noordin Lokhandwalla v. State of Maharashtra & Anr. (2020) 10 SCC 77. 16 Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India (1978) 1 SCC 248. 2152 [2025] 2 S.C.R. Supreme Court Reports an interpretation should not … statute should be weighed against its intended purpose, much as Indian courts have done in cases like Maneka Gandhi (supra) and Arnesh Kumar v. State of Bihar.17 These cases clearly demonstrate the wide prevalence of the principle
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Supreme Court of India5 Nov 2024Full text
2024 INSC 835 · [2024] 11 S.C.R. 1
Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India (1978) 1 SCC 248, this Court expanded Article 21 many folds by establishing its co-relationship with Articles 14 and 19. It culminated in a position of law where a law depriving … India. 2. In MH Hosket v. State of Maharashtra (1978) 3 SCC 544 this Court relied on Maneka Gandhi to recognize the right of prisoners to free legal assistance including help in filing appeals. 3. In Hussainara Khatoon
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Supreme Court of India23 Aug 2022Full text
2022 INSC 853 · [2022] 12 S.C.R. 320
law” was interpreted to mean “Procedural due process”. This judicial quibbling was ultimately set to rest in Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248, wherein a combined B reading of Articles 14, 19 and … word “law” in the expression “procedure established by law” in Article 21 has been interpreted to mean in Maneka Gandhi case that the law must be right, just and fair and not D arbitrary, fanciful or oppressive.” (Emphasis
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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 India24 Apr 2023Full text
2023 INSC 419 · [2023] 4 S.C.R. 512
may follow up the import of Maneka Gandhi and crystallise the conclusion. Maneka Gandhi case has laid down that personal liberty cannot be cut out or cut down without fair legal procedure. Enough has been set out
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Supreme Court of India21 Nov 2023Full text
2023 INSC 1013 · [2023] 16 S.C.R. 672
read the guarantees of fair procedure and non-arbitrariness as emanating from the decision of this Court in Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248] into the provisions
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Supreme Court of India13 Oct 2022Full text
2022 INSC 1085 · [2022] 5 S.C.R. 426
objectives and it is the duty of the Court to progressively realise the values of the Constitution. In Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India [Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248] , it has been held
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Supreme Court of India17 Oct 2023Full text
2023 INSC 920 · [2023] 16 S.C.R. 1209
judges, in All India Bank Employees Association v. National Industrial Tribunal62. That decision was quoted with approval in Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India (UOI) & Ors. , (hereafter, “Maneka Gandhi”)63: “This theory has been fi rmly rejected
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Supreme Court of India18 May 2023Full text
2023 INSC 548 · [2023] 7 S.C.R. 426
Others [(2015) 4 SCC 400], A.R. Antulay -vs- R.S. Nayak E and Another [(1988) 2 SCC 602] and Maneka Gandhi -vs- Union of India and Another [(1978) 1 SCC 248]. The judgment of the Maneka Gandhi (supra) was
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Supreme Court of India23 Jul 2025Full text
2025 INSC 884 · [2025] 7 S.C.R. 1371
afraid, it is rather late in the day to question the correctness of the landmark decision in Maneka Gandhi case and the innovative construction placed by Bhagwati, J. on Article 14 in the three cases of Royappa, Maneka
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Supreme Court of India8 Jul 2024Full text
2024 INSC 465 · [2024] 7 S.C.R. 246
Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248 [Bhagwati J, 29] 92 Prakash Jha v. Union of India (2011) 8 SCC 372 [8, 22-27] 93 Maneka Gandhi (supra), Indibly Creative (supra) [22, 28] 94 Indibly
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Supreme Court of India16 Aug 2022Full text
2022 INSC 835 · [2022] 18 S.C.R. 468
been the cynosure of special constitutional attention in Article 21, the fuller implications whereof have been unravelled in Maneka Gandhi case. When we read the signification of the right of appeal under Article E 134 we must remember … protection of life and personal liberty. Surely, law, in this setting, is a pregnant expression. Bhagwati, J., in Maneka Gandhi stated the position emphatically and since then this Court has followed that prescription and even developed
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Supreme Court of India25 Feb 2025Full text
2025 INSC 264 · [2025] 2 S.C.R. 2130
SCC OnLine SC 897; Parvez Noordin Lokhandwalla v. State of Maharashtra & Anr. (2020) 10 SCC 77. 16 Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India (1978) 1 SCC 248. 2152 [2025] 2 S.C.R. Supreme Court Reports an interpretation should not … statute should be weighed against its intended purpose, much as Indian courts have done in cases like Maneka Gandhi (supra) and Arnesh Kumar v. State of Bihar.17 These cases clearly demonstrate the wide prevalence of the principle
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Supreme Court of India5 Nov 2024Full text
2024 INSC 835 · [2024] 11 S.C.R. 1
Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India (1978) 1 SCC 248, this Court expanded Article 21 many folds by establishing its co-relationship with Articles 14 and 19. It culminated in a position of law where a law depriving … India. 2. In MH Hosket v. State of Maharashtra (1978) 3 SCC 544 this Court relied on Maneka Gandhi to recognize the right of prisoners to free legal assistance including help in filing appeals. 3. In Hussainara Khatoon
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Supreme Court of India23 Aug 2022Full text
2022 INSC 853 · [2022] 12 S.C.R. 320
law” was interpreted to mean “Procedural due process”. This judicial quibbling was ultimately set to rest in Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, (1978) 1 SCC 248, wherein a combined B reading of Articles 14, 19 and … word “law” in the expression “procedure established by law” in Article 21 has been interpreted to mean in Maneka Gandhi case that the law must be right, just and fair and not D arbitrary, fanciful or oppressive.” (Emphasis
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