Article 14 of the Constitution of India

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Article 14 of the Constitution of India provides for equality before the law or equal protection of the laws within the territory of India. It states:

"The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India."^[1]

Reasonable Classification and Non-Arbitrariness

Article 14 guarantees equality to all persons^[a], including citizens, corporations, and foreigners.^[3]^[4]^[5] Its provisions have come up for discussion in the Supreme Court in a number of cases and the case of Ram Krishna Dalmia vs Justice S R Tendolkar reiterated its meaning and scope as follows. Article 14 permits classification, so long as it is 'reasonable', but forbids class legislation. A classification of groups of people is considered reasonable when:^[6]

The classification is based upon intelligible differentia that distinguishes persons or things that are grouped from others that are left out of the group, and,
The differential has a rational relation with the objective of the act.

In addition, the classification must be non-arbitrary.^[7]^[8] Supreme Court in E. P. Royappa (1973) provided guidance on arbitrariness of an act:

"Equality is a dynamic concept with many aspects and dimensions and it cannot be ‘cribbed, cabined and confined’ within the traditional and doctrinaire limits. From the positivistic point of view, equality is antithetic to arbitrariness. In fact, equality and arbitrariness are sworn enemies… Where an act is arbitrary, it is implicit that it is unequal both according to political logic and constitutional law and is therefore violative of Article 14."

Notes

^ General Clauses Act, 1897, Section 3, clause 42 defines person to include any company or association or body of individuals, whether incorporated or not.^[2]

References

^ "The Constitution of India" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 January 2013.
^ "General Clauses Act, 1897" (PDF).
^ "The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019". PRSIndia. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
^ "Right to Equality". Legal Services India.
^ "Birds to holy rivers: A list of everything India considers 'legal persons'". Quartz India. 6 June 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
^ "Ram Krishna Dalmia vs Justice S R Tendolkar". India Kanoon.
^ "Religious basis of citizenship would be a negation of secularism, liberalism, equality and justice". The Indian Express. 11 December 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
^ "Doctrine of Non-Arbitrariness and Reasonable Classification". iPleaders. 13 September 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2019.

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