Question

A company or corporation registered under the companies act is a person but not a citizen therefore it can not claim the right guaranteed under article 19 ? Right or wrong?

Answer 1

Corporate Personality is the creation of law. Legal personality of corporation is recognized both in English and Indian law. A corporation is an artificial person enjoying in law capacity to have rights and duties and holding property. 

A corporation is distinguished by reference to different kinds of things which the law selects for personification. The individuals forming the corpus of corporation are called its members. The juristic personality of corporations pre-supposes the existence of three conditions :
(1) There must be a group or body of human beings associated for a certain purpose. 
(2) There must be organs through which the corporation functions, and 
(3) The corporation is attributed will by legal fiction. A corporation is distinct from its individual members[1].

It has the legal personality of its own and it can sue and can be sued in its own name. It does not come to end with the death of its individual members and therefore, has a perpetual existence. However, unlike natural persons, a corporation can act only through its agents. Law provides procedure for winding up of a corporate body[2]. Besides, corporations the banks, railways, universities, colleges, church, temple, hospitals etc. are also conferred legal personality. Union of India and States are also recognized as legal or juristic persons [3].