Consider the following statements 1 All Fundamental Rights can be suspended at the time of national ...........

Indian Polity Fundamental Rights

Consider the following statements

1. All Fundamental Rights can be suspended at the time of national emergency.

2. The Parliament can curtail or repeal a Fundamental right only by a constitutional amendment act.

3. Article 33 empowers only the Parliament to restrict or abrogate the fundamental rights of the members of armed forces.

Choose the correct code from below.

1&2 only

1 only

2&3 only

All the above

Salient features of Fundamental Rights

Some of them are available only to the citizens while others are available to all persons whether citizens, foreigners or legal persons like corporations or companies.
Most of them are available against the arbitrary action of the State, with a few exceptions like those against the State’s action and against the action of private individuals. When the rights that are available against the State’s action only are violated by the private individuals, there are no constitutional remedies but only ordinary legal remedies. Eg. Abolition of untouchability, punishable offence on individual who practices it.
They can be suspended during the operation of a National Emergency except the rights guaranteed by Articles 20 and 21. Further, the six rights guaranteed by Article 19 can be suspended only when emergency is declared on the grounds of war or external aggression (i.e., external emergency) and not on the ground of armed rebellion (i.e., internal emergency).
They are not sacrosanct or permanent. The Parliament can curtail or repeal them but only by a constitutional amendment act and not by an ordinary act. Moreover, this can be done without affecting the ‘basic structure’ of the Constitution.

Hence both statements 2&3 are correct.