The Supreme Court, in Maniyar Iliyaz v. P. Ayyappan & Ors., has recognised the right to walk as an fundamental right of the Constitution. Yet this constitutional development appears to raise an important question when viewed alongside the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014. Unlike many statutes that merely regulate commercial activities, Parliament, through the Street Vendors Act, expressly recognised that vending may be carried on on streets, lanes, sidewalks and footpaths. It reflects a conscious legislative recognition that footpaths may serve not only as spaces for pedestrian movement but also as places where livelihood can be earned through regulated street vending. When Parliament itself has recognized footpaths as legitimate spaces for regulated street vending, can the judicial recognition of the right to walk as a fundamental right require the complete exclusion of vendors from those very spaces?