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Assertion (A) - It is the legal and constitutional duty of the State to provide legal aid to the poor.…

Article 39A casts a constitutional duty on the State to provide free legal aid so that no citizen is denied justice by reason of economic or other disability, a principle…

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Assertion (A) - It is the legal and constitutional duty of the State to provide legal aid to the poor.
Reason (R) - No one shall be denied justice by reason of his poverty.

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Article 39A casts a constitutional duty on the State to provide free legal aid so that no citizen is denied justice by reason of economic or other disability, a principle developed in Hussainara Khatoon v. State of Bihar; hence "Both A & R are true and R is correct explanation".

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