Principle of Natural Justice

Constitutional Provisions

• Preamble: It mentions equality of status and of opportunity, which not only ensures fairness in socioeconomical activities of the people but also acts as shield to individual’s liberty against the arbitrary action (base for principles of Natural Justice).
• Article 14: This Article guarantees equality before law and equal protection of law.
• Article 21: It ensures that due process of law procedure must satisfy certain requisites in the sense of being fair and reasonable. The procedure cannot be arbitrary, unfair or unreasonable.

Judicial Pronouncements: The Supreme Court pronouncement of “due process of Law “in Maneka Gandhi case (1978), court asserted the ....