Constitution of india, Article 21 – “21. Protection of life and personal liberty.— No person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law.” An apercu of Article 21 of the Constitution suggests the question whether it is fair procedure to deprive a person of his personal liberty merely because he has not discharged his contractual liability in the face of the constitutional protection of life and liberty as expounded and expanded by a chain of rulings of this Court beginning with Maneka Gandhi case
Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, 1978 1 SCC 248