Right of Life and Personal Liberty and Indian Constitution: New Changing Dimensions

Abstract

Right to life and personal liberty is the most cherished and pivotal fundamental human rights around which other rights of the individual revolve. Due to constitutional jurisprudential approach article 21 is become the celebrity provision of the Indian Constitution and "right to life and personal liberty" provides a liberty to everyone in their respective sphere. The trinity i.e. liberty, equality and fraternity always blossoms and enlivens the flower of human dignity. One of the gifts of democracy to mankind is the right to personal liberty. The evolution of basic concept makes it imperative that the concept of right to life and personal liberty should be examined a new with reference to development, meaning, width and depth, along with judicial interpretation, justification for such liberal.

Henceforth, this paper deal with the meaning of the concept, to summarize the constituent assembly debates over this article and analysis its evolution through judicial interpretation in present scenario.