Authors : Dipali Mankar
Page Nos : 61-64
Description :
Part III of the Indian Constitution that is Fundamental Rights chapter is one of the most significant chapter and has played a massive transformative role in the Indian society. Owing to a tacit acknowledgement of the centrality of the State, the enforcement of Fundamental Rights has been predominantly vertical. The inherent limitations of the vision of Fundamental Rights as a negative right imposing constraints on the state; and aims to advocate a positive duty-based approach in order to fulfil the constitutional visions of a transformed society. In this paper researcher trying to analyse the foundations of horizontality in the areas of fundamental rights, also trying to analyse and explore the possibility of such horizontal application in areas like free speech, spaces where the private non-state players play a significant role in imposing regulations, which are, more often than not, extra-legal in nature.
