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  1. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched ?
    1. ADM Jabalpur case-Rights of citizens undr emergency
    2. Indira Sawhney case-Rights of women at work
    3. Vishakha case-Centre-State relations
    4. Kartar Singh case-Rights of minorities
Correct Option: A

Article 21 of the Constitution guarantees right to the life and liberty. However, during internal emergency (1975-77), the Right to move to the court to enforce Article 21 was suspended under Article 359 of the Constitution. Soon a question arose if, in such a situation, a writ of Habeas Corpus was maintainable? ADM Jabalpur Vs Shiv Kant Shukla AIR 1976, also known as the Habeas Corpus case, dealt with this question.


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