Q42. What is the position of the Right to Property in India?
a) Legal right available to citizens only b) Legal right available to any person c) Fundamental Rights available to citizens only d) Neither Fundamental Rights nor legal rights
Answer: (b)
The Right to Property is a legal right available to any person. Article 300-A provides that no person shall be deprived of his property save by the authority of law.
The Forty-Fourth Constitutional Amendment, 1978, deleted Articles 19(1)(f) and 31 from Part III, the chapter on Fundamental Rights in the Constitution