Question

Role of indian judiciary in protection and promotion of human rights

Answer 1

Human rights are often called Fundamental and Universal. Human freedom refers primarily to a condition characterized by the absence of coercion or constraint imposed by another person. It refers to an aspect of conduct within which each man chooses his own course and is protected from compulsion or restrain. Man has the right to live. He has the right to bodily integrate and to the means necessary for proper development of life, particularly food, clothing, shelter, medical care, rest and finally necessary social services. Hence rights are undeniable and inherent rights of every individual. The objective of this research paper is to understand the golden thread in the issue of human rights, namely, the philosophy of human rights and to understands the judicial activism of the Indian judiciary, in the past four decades, through the pronouncements of the Supreme Court, referring to the national laws and also international instruments, thus, protecting and promoting human rights in India. Further, this paper traces the various steps taken by the social reformers and politicians prior to and after independence in upholding and protecting human rights, enhancing dignity of the human being and establishing the fundamental freedoms inherent in nature.