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Are Fundamental Rights Mutually Exclusive?

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Aparna Shukla
12 September 20217 min read
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A K Gopalan v State of Madras​​ (1980) (SC)It was held that various Fundamental rights are mutually exclusive and one Fundamental Right will not touch upon another Fundamental Right.Kharak Singh v State of UP (1963) (SC)It was held that various fundamental rights are mutually exclusive but larger purpose of all fundamental rights is same.R C Cooper v Union of India (1970) (SC)It was held that various fundamental rights are not mutually exclusive, rather they overlap in their essence.Kesavananda Bharti v State of Kerala (1973) (SC)It was a 13 Judges Bench decision and the judgement was declared by Justice Sikri.​​ In this case, the Court held that there are some elements which are the part of Basic Structure of Constitution and there are underlying Fundamental Rights and they cut across each other and thus they bring about interconnection between various Fundamental Rights and that is where it can be concluded that the fundamental rights are not mutually exclusive (overarching​​ principles).Maneka Gandhi v Union of India (1978) (SC)The judgement was given by the seven judges bench of the Supreme Court and the judgement was declared by Justice PN Bhagwati. The Fundamental Rights are not mutually exclusive.Justice K S Puttaswami (retd.) v Union of India (2017) (SC)It was held that various Fundamental rights ae not mutually exclusive and therefore if a restriction is imposed upon a right under Article 19(1) of the Constitution of India on the basis of Article 19(2) till Article 19(6), then it has to pass the test also of reasonable, just, fair and​​ non-arbitrary​​ of Article 21. Not only the procedure, rather the law also has to be examined to be just, fair, reasonable and​​ non-arbitrary.(function( $ ) { //footnotes $('.defaultNote').children(":first").css('cursor', 'pointer'); $('.defaultNote').children(":first").click(function(){ var gotoID = '#' + $(this).parent().attr('id'); $('html, body').animate( { scrollTop: $('a[href="' + gotoID + '"]').offset().top - 60, }, 250, 'linear' ) }); }(jQuery)); var numFormat = ",."; (function( $ ) { "use strict"; //do some cleaning on load var sortCells = $('td[data-sorting], th[data-sorting]'); sortCells.each(function(){ var first = $(this).text().trim().charAt(0); if (first == '@'){ var oldHTML = $(this).html(); var newHTML = oldHTML.replace('@', ''); $(this).html(newHTML); } }); function sortingTable(node, pos, ordBy){ var rows = node.children('tbody').children('tr').get(); rows.sort(function(a, b) { var X = $(a).children('td').eq(pos).text().toUpperCase(); var Y = $(b).children('td').eq(pos).text().toUpperCase(); if (numFormat != '.,'){ //we are dealing with a different locale and we need to do some //transformation in numbers X = convert2number(X); Y = convert2number(Y); } else { X = X.replace(/,/g, '').replace(/ /g, ''); Y = Y.replace(/,/g, '').replace(/ /g, ''); } var currencies = ['$', '¥', '£', '€']; var arrayLength = currencies.length; var XX = X; var YY = Y; for (var i = 0; i < arrayLength; i++) { XX = XX.replace(currencies[i], ''); YY = YY.replace(currencies[i], ''); } if (!isNaN(XX) && !isNaN(YY)){ var floatXX = parseFloat(XX); var floatYY = parseFloat(YY); return -(floatYY-floatXX) * ordBy; } else if (!isNaN(XX) && isNaN(YY)){ return -1 * ordBy; } else if (isNaN(XX) && !isNaN(YY)){ return ordBy; } else { if(X < Y) { return -1 * ordBy; } if(X > Y) { return 1 * ordBy; } return 0; } }); $.each(rows, function(index, row) { node.children('tbody').append(row); }); } function removeTableCellDecoration() { $("td[data-sorting], th[data-sorting]").removeClass('sortDecorator'); } //unbind the click event just in case we are loading more than one document $("td[data-sorting], th[data-sorting]").off('click'); $("td[data-sorting], th[data-sorting]").click(function(){ removeTableCellDecoration(); $(this).addClass('sortDecorator'); //get desired ordering var ordering = $(this).attr('data-sortOrdering'); if (ordering == 'ASC'){ var ordBy = -1; $(this).attr('data-sortOrdering', 'DESC'); } else { var ordBy = 1; $(this).attr('data-sortOrdering', 'ASC'); } var cellPosition = $(this).prevAll().length; var table = $(this).parents('table:first'); sortingTable(table, cellPosition, ordBy); }); function convert2number(str) { str = str.trim(); if (str.match(/^\d+/)) { //we have to take special care when the thousand separators are '.' var result_0 = str.replace(/\./g, '_@_'); var result_1 = result_0.replace(window.numFormat[0], '.'); var result = result_1.replace(/_@_/g, ''); result .replace(/ /g, ''); return result; } else { return str; } } }(jQuery));
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