{"id":170536,"date":"2022-02-23T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=170536"},"modified":"2022-02-23T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T15:31:00","slug":"on-legally-enforcing-fundamental-duties-wrong-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/on-legally-enforcing-fundamental-duties-wrong-call\/","title":{"rendered":"On legally enforcing Fundamental Duties: Wrong call \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News: <\/span><\/b>Supreme court has been hearing a PIL that seeks to legally enforce fundamental duties. It has also issued notice to the centre and states for the same.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fundamental duties (Article 51A) are in the form of general directives to citizens to display some \u201cideal\u201d conduct in their public lives.<\/span> However, they are not justiciable<\/strong> and there have been some objections in making them legally enforceable.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the concerns regarding legal enforcement of fundamental duties?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

Abuse and misuse: <\/span><\/b>Fundamental duties deal with<\/span> diverse areas such as environment, education, national security, heritage conservation, etc. Making them legally enforceable will make such a law prone to huge abuse and politicisation.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Provisions already present: <\/span><\/b>There are many laws like Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, IPC 124A, Contempt of Courts Act, Environmental Protection Act, Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Remains Act, Right to Education Act that already cover some fundamental duties.<\/span> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Law making is Parliament\u2019s and the political executive\u2019s arena<\/span><\/b> and not that of the Courts, who mainly interpret such a law. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

PILs are a double-edged sword, so the Judiciary must entertain only those PILs where it fears immense harm to public interest owing to inaction by<\/span> governments and institutions.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:<\/span><\/b> This post is based on the article \u201c<\/span>Wrong call<\/span><\/b>\u201d published in <\/span>Times of India<\/span><\/b> on 23<\/strong><\/span>rd<\/strong> Feb 2022<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: Supreme court has been hearing a PIL that seeks to legally enforce fundamental duties. It has also issued notice to the centre and states for the same.\u00a0 Fundamental duties (Article 51A) are in the form of general directives to citizens to display some \u201cideal\u201d conduct in their public lives. However, they are not justiciable… Continue reading On legally enforcing Fundamental Duties: Wrong call \u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-170536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}