The path-breaking 1973 Kesavananda Bharati judgement on "basic structure" doctrine had clipped the vast power of Parliament to amend the Constitution and simultaneously gave the judiciary the ...

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A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar while hearing the petitions observed that being ...

The Kesavananda Bharati verdict answered anxieties building up in India over creeping autocracy and judicial pushback against socialist policies. The basic structure doctrine struck a tenuous ...

This decision reaffirms a portion of the landmark Kesavananda Bharati case judgment while acknowledging the limitations imposed by the Minerva Mills ruling on the article's scope. Through the 42nd ...

violated the basic structure doctrine enunciated in the famous Kesavananda Bharati judgment by 13-judge bench in 1973, by which Parliament's power to amend the Constitution was barred from ...