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dated January 6, 1959: Individual rights

Mr. M.C. Setalvad, Attorney-General of India and President of the Indian Commission of Jurists, welcoming the invitees to the International Congress of Jurists in New Delhi on January 5, said that modern governments with their manifold functions had so largely encroached upon the manner of life and the liberty of the individual that a constant watchfulness was necessary on the part of those concerned with the administration of the law to guard the rights of the individual against the State. He said that the recent trends in certain countries in favour of absolute and autocratic authority were a matter of “grave concern” to an institution like the International Commission of Jurists, for military or absolute rule necessarily implied the negation of the rule of law.

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