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Right to Travel Abroad
April 27 , 2019
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- Supreme court has ruled that right to travel abroad is a genuine and “basic human right” like marriage and family.
- The order was delivered in Satish Chandra Verma vs Union of India case.
- Tamilnadu cadre IPS officer Satish Chandra was refused permission to take a private trip abroad due to departmental proceedings.
- The Supreme Court referred to its Maneka Gandhi vs Union of India 1978 judgment and upheld the right of the appellant to travel abroad.
- It also referred to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case of 1958 Kent vs Dulles.
- This case stated that “freedom to go abroad has much social value and represents the basic human right of great significance”.
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