2019 (4) TMI 1765

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....eksha Gaur, Ms. Shivangi Singh, Mr. Shantanu Sharma, For Respondent(s) Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, ASG Mr. Mukul Singh, Mr. Rajat Nair, Mr. B. V. Balaram Das, ORDER Leave granted. The appellant filed O.A. No.1662 of 2018 before the Central Administrative Tribunal, Chennai Bench challenging the denial of permission to him for a private foreign visit from 23.12.2018 to 19.01.2019. The appellant i....

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....t there was nothing wrong in  the denial of permission due to lack of vigilance clearance. The appellant is before us assailing the order of the Tribunal and the High Court in not granting appropriate relief to him. When the matter was listed for admission, we were of the opinion that the appellant has a fundamental right to travel and that right cannot be infringed on the ground that vigi....

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....y extending the scope of his experience. The right also extends to private life; marriage, family and friendship are humanities which can be rarely affected through refusal of freedom to go abroad and clearly show that this freedom is a genuine human right. (See: Mrs. Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India and Another (1978) 1 SCC 248). In the said judgment, there is a reference to the words of Justice D....