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The fundamenta l rights guaranteed by the Constitution are available not merely to

individua l citizens but to corporate bodies as well except where the language of the
provision or the nature of the right compels the inference that they are applicable only to
natural persons. An incorporated company, therefore, can come up to the Supreme Court
for enforcement of its fundamental rights and so may the individual shareholders to enfo rce
their own; but it would not be open to an individua l sha reholder to complain of an Act
wh ich affects the fundamenta l rights of the Company except to the extent that it constitutes
an infraction of his own rights as well. This follows logica lly from the rule of law that a
corporation has a distinct lega l persona lity of its own with rights a nd capacities, duties and
obligations separate from those of its individua l members.As the rights are different and
inhere in different legal entities, it is not competent to one person to seek to enforce the
rights of another except where the law permits him to do so.

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