The Emergency was more than a political crisis, as the Constitution’s basic structure was once again under siege.

In a high-level closed-door interaction with the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the One Nation One Election Bill, former Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chand ...

The basic structure or framework of the Constitution is its living spirit, holding up the body of its text. Its existence cannot be pin-pointed to any particular provision of the text.

The Basic Structure Doctrine should balance its ambit concerning the powers of Parliament, as it is the biggest forum of representative democracy This year in April, we celebrated the 50th ...

The basic structure is an institutional assertion against aggrandising majoritarianism if we are prepared to learn from the errors of the bygone days. Kaleeswaram Raj Lawyer, Supreme Court of India ...

Former CJI D.Y. Chandrachud, in his opinion submitted to the joint committee of Parliament, dismissed the Opposition's ...

Hamid’s central claim is that the Basic Structure Doctrine (BSD) is a foreign doctrine, adopted wholesale from the Indians, with no link whatsoever to the Malaysian Constitution. This is a grave ...

A look at the features and evolution of the “basic structure” doctrine propounded in the landmark Kesavananda Bharati case. May 16, 2025 e-Paper LOGIN Account ...

COMMENT | When I was deputy registrar in the 1970s, former chief justice of Malaya SS Gill told me: “You know, Hamid, India abolished trial by jury in 1957. We adopted it in the same year ...

Kolkata: The basic structure of the Constitution cannot be changed by any means, said Supreme Court judge Dipankar Datta while speaking on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Kesavananda ...