Food For Thought (Constitution of India)

1. Article 300-A Constitution of India : - ….......no person shall be deprived of his property save by authority of law.

2. Article 14 of the Constitution of India guarantees to every person equal treatment before law and extends protection of the laws in equal measures to all. “Equality before law” declares that every person is equal before law, no one can claim special privilege and that all classes are equal subject to the ordinary law of the land.

3. Equality is the antithesis of arbitrariness.

4. Equality : - There shall be no privileged person or class and that none shall be above law.

5. All that Article 14 guarantees is the similarity of treatment and not identical treatment.

6. Article 14 strikes at arbitrariness in State action and ensures fairness and equality of treatment.

7. Arbitrariness violates Article 14.