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 ...

If India were to relive the rath yatra and the riots that accompanied Ayodhya, D.Y. Chandrachud’s comment on the Varanasi ...

A writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking the removal of words socialism and secularism from the Preamble ...

India’s Constitution, the world’s longest written constitution, represents the aspirations of a nation striving for unity and progress amidst diversity. Over the years, its strength has been fortified ...

These words were inserted into the Preamble by the Indira Gandhi government in 1976 through a Constitutional amendment.

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

The case which birthed basic structure was titled ‘Kesavananda Bharati and Ors v State of Kerala’. Ever since this doctrine was formulated in 1973, several important decisions of the ...

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 ...