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(f) to acquire, hold and dispose of property; and ;
(g) to practice any profession or to carry on any occupation, trade or business.
(2) Nothing in Sub-clause (a) of Clause (1) shall affect the operation of any existing law, or prevent the State from making any law, in so far as such law imposes reasonable restrictions on the exercise of the right conferred by the said sub-clause in the interest of the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or morality, or in relation to contempt of Court, defamation or incitement to an offence....
(11) The present Clause (2) is substituted by Constitution (First Amendment) Act of 1951, Section 3(1) (a). The said clause is to be deemed always to have been enacted in the form given above and therefore its substitution the clause was as follows:
(2) Nothing in Sub-clause (a) of Clause (1) shall affect the operation of any existing law in so far as it relates to, or prevent the State from making any law relating to libel, as well as defamation, contempt of Court or any matter which offends against decency or morality or to undermine security or tends to overthrow the State.
(16) The words used in the amendment are no; doubt wider in scope, but it will have to be seen whether Section 124A, Penal Code, would be operative and binding in view of the amendment. It is for the State to show how the provisions of Section 124A, Penal Code, are reasonable and otherwise satisfy the conditions which would make it valid under Clause (2) of Article 19 of the Constitution; vide 'Brajnandan Sharma v. State of Bihar' .
(17) Under Clause (2) of Article 19 of the Constitution reasonable restriction may be imposed by law in the interest of the security of the State, friendly relation with foreign States, public order, decency or morality or in relation to contempt of Court defamation or incitement to an offence. Unless the restriction is for one of the purposes mentioned in the clause and is also reasonable, it would be ultra vires.