
Courts doing wonderfully well in protecting the right to life, says senior counsel
Deccan ChronicleHYDERABAD: Senior counsel L. Ravichander said that courts were fortifying and expanding the applicability of Article 21 since Independence by way of several judgments. Gopalan case in the 1950s, the Menaka Gandhi case during the Emergency by the Supreme Court to the directions of a division bench of the Telangana High Court in the case of advocate Eunice Lalnunmawli, directing the Telangana police to pay compensation for her illegal custody, had enlightened about how Article 21 is helping people lead a dignified life and enjoy personal liberty, irrespective of whether the individual in an Indian or a foreigner. Ravichander was delivering a lecture titled ‘Right to Life and Personal Liberty — Article 21 of Constitution: A case study’ at the Telangana State Bar Council, organised by the Nyayavadi Parishad- Telangana unit, here on Friday. Gopalan v State of Madras’ on the preventive detention of the communist leader, that under Article 21, which protects life and personal liberty, the court needed to apply a due process of law standard.
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