PR-0048Principles · Human Rights · Wanted
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Scope
A person who cannot pay for a lawyer is entitled to one at the cost of the State, at trial and before it.
Authorities to start from
- India Const. art. 39A
- M.H. Hoskot v. State of Maharashtra, (1978) 3 SCC 544
- Hussainara Khatoon v. State of Bihar, (1980) 1 SCC 98
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