Article 39A, which mandates the State to secure that the operation of the legal system promotes justice, on a basis of equal opportunity, and shall, in particular, provide free legal aid, by suitable legislation or schemes or in any other way, to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disabilities, was inserted into the Directive Principles of State Policy by the 42nd Amendment Act of 1976.
In which year it was inserted in the Constitution of India that the State shall secure free legal aid to any citizen by reason of economic or other disabilities ?
Asked in RPSC RAS Prelims 2024 · Topic: Directive Principles of State Policy (New DPSPs added by Constitutional Amendments)
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