Right to Travel Abroad

  • In a recent observation, Supreme Court (SC) remarked that the right to travel abroad is a genuine and basic human right like marriage and family.
  • The court was hearing an appeal filed by an IPS officer who was refused permission to take a private trip abroad to visit relatives as he had a departmental enquiry pending against him.
  • The court ruled that the right to travel abroad is an important basic human right for it nourishes independent and self-determining creative character of the individual.
  • The Supreme Court referred to its Maneka Gandhi judgment (1978) upholding the right to travel and the landmark U.S. ....
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