Maharashtra State PSC Model Paper 5

The correct answer is Due process of law.

• In the Maneka Gandhi case (1978), the Supreme Court overruled its judgement in the Gopalan case by taking a wider interpretation of the Article 21.
  • Therefore, it ruled that the right to life and personal liberty of a person can be deprived by a law provided the procedure prescribed by that law is reasonable, fair and just.
  • In other words, it has introduced the American expression ‘due process of law’.