The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ''cannot create a binding set of rules'' and international treaties ''may at best inform judicial institutions and inspire legislative action''. Thus, while the UDHR is arguably not binding on Indian law (though might be binding as customary international law), it influences it.

(found in ''The Status of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in National and International Law'' by Hurst Hannum, Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 25, Nos. 1&2, Fall 1995/Winter 1996, p 299)