(1) All citizens shall have the right (a) to freedom of speech and expression; . . . . . . . . . . (g) to practise any profession, or to carry on any occupation, trade or business, (2) Nothing in sub clause (a) of clause (1) shall affect the operation of any existing law, or prevent the State from making any law, in so far as such law imposes reasonable restrictions on the exercise of the right conferred by the said sub clause in the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, decency or morality, or in relation to contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offence. . . . . . . (6) Nothing in sub clause (g)of the said said clause shall affect the operation of any existing law in so far as it imposes, or prevent the State from making any law impos (1) ; (2) ; 311 ing, in the interests of the general public, reasonable restrictions on the exercise of the right conferred by the said sub clause. . . " The freedom of press, as one of the members of the Constituent Assembly said, is one of the items around which the greatest and the bitterest of constitutional struggles have been waged in all countries where liberal constitutions prevail.