Chief Justice of India BR Gavai, on Thursday delivered the keynote address at the Fifth “Wisdom for Future” Talk Series ...
The Constitution of India enshrines a vision of justice — social, economic, and political — and a commitment to equality in status and opportunity. But history has shown us that these ideals are often ...
The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act 2020, (“Farm Act”) received Presidential assent on the 24th of September 2020. Challenging the Act, a Member ...
“Parliament does not know as to what constitutes basic structure… Now, this vague, ambiguous and ever-growing doctrine is part of the Constitution by way of an interpretation,” he shared at an even on ...
The judge highlighted landmark cases such as Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala, which defined India's constitutional destiny by establishing the doctrine of basic structure.
When Kenya’s Supreme Court said that the basic structure doctrine is not part of Kenya’s constitutional culture and therefore the 2010 Constitution will not be interpreted through that lens, it ...
• The basic structure doctrine presupposes that the Constitution in question was attained through a genuinely participatory process. • What people endorsed in the 2010 referendum was a caricature of ...
New Delhi [India], July 11 (ANI): Former Chief Justices of India JS Khehar and DY Chandrachud gave their views before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) of Parliament on One Nation, One Election ...
The Supreme Court's decision to judicially review any law incorporated to the Ninth Schedule post April 24, 1973, brings certain troubling questions of constitutional significance to the fore. It ...
Chief Justice of India (CJI) B R Gavai has once again reiterated that it is not Parliament, but the Constitution of India that holds the highest authority, and all three pillars of democracy function ...
Chief Justice of India BR Gavai has said the Constitution of India is supreme and all three wings of democracy work under it. The Parliament has the power to amend, but it cannot alter the basic ...