Indian fundamental rights
THE SIX FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS The original Constitution (1950) had seven Fundamental Rights. But after thei passage of the 44 Amendment in 1978, there are now six Fundamental Rights. i This Amendment deleted the seventh fundamental right, viz., right to property (Art. 31) from the list of Fundamental Rights. In sub-sections below, you will i read about the six Fundamental Rights: 1.Right to Equality Articles 4 to 18 deal with different aspects of right to equality. Article 14 states i that the state shall not deny to any person equality before the law and equal protection of law within the terrtory of India. It, thus, provides equality before to every person without discriminating on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or i place of birth. Articles 15, 16, 17 and 18 relate to socio-economic equality. i Article 15 prohibits state from discriminating against any person on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex. place of birth or any of them. However, the state can make special p...
