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Directive principles and fundamental duties

Part IV and Part IVA: the principles the State is to apply in making laws, which no court enforces, and the duties of citizens added in 1976.

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Vande Mataram and the national honour law · on Freedoms, privacy and personal liberty (Articles 19 to 22)
The Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971 punishes insult to the National Flag and the Constitution, and the intentional prevention of the singing of the National Anthem.