Finance, Property, Contracts
No person shall be deprived of his property save by authority of law.
Added by the 44th Amendment (1978) after property was removed from the Fundamental Rights chapter (see Article 31's history), this article gives property protection as an ordinary legal right rather than a Fundamental Right - the government still cannot take your property without legal authority, but you enforce this through regular courts rather than directly via a Fundamental Rights writ petition to the Supreme Court under Article 32.
If the government wants to acquire your land for a public project, it must do so under a specific law (like the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition Act, 2013) providing for proper compensation and procedure - it cannot simply take your property without any legal authority, though your remedy for a violation runs through ordinary courts rather than a direct Fundamental Rights claim.