392 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
ARTICLE II—Section I
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF CITIZENS
The Constitution of the United States of India shall recognize the following as Fundamental Rights of citizenship :
All persons born or naturalized within its territories are citizens of Fundamental Rights. the United States of India and of the State wherein (For explanation, see they reside. Any privilege or disability arising out page 406) of rank, birth, person, family, religion or religious usage and custom is abolished.
No State shall make or enforce any law or custom which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens ; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty and property without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction equal protection of law.
All citizens are equal before the law and possess equal civic rights. Any existing enactment, regulation, order, custom or interpretation of law by which any penalty, disadvantage or disability is imposed upon or any discrimination is made against any citizen shall, as from the day on which this Constitution comes into operation, cease to have any effect.
Whoever denies to any person, except for reasons by law applicable to persons of all classes and regardless of their social status, the full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges of inns, educational institutions, roads, paths, streets, tanks, wells and other watering places, public conveyances on land, air or water, theatres or other places of public amusement, resort or convenience, whether they are dedicated to or maintained or licensed for the use of the public, shall be guilty of an offence.
All citizens shall have equal access to all institutions, conveniences and amenities maintained by or for the public.
No citizen shall be disqualified to hold any public office or exercise any trade or calling by reason of his or her religion, caste, creed, sex or social status.
(i) Every citizen has the right to reside in any part of India. No law shall be made abridging the right of a citizen to reside except for consideration of public order and morality.
(ii) Every citizen has the right to settle in any part of India, subject to the production of a certificate of citizenship from the State of his origin. The permission to settle shall not be refused or withdrawn except on grounds specified in sub-clause (iv) of this clause.