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

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 ...

Preserves Constitutional Integrity: It maintains the essential identity and integrity of the Constitution, even as it evolves through amendments. Limits Parliamentary Power: Parliament’s power to ...

The basic structure doctrine itself was first invoked in the 1967 Golak Nath case, due to the Constitution’s failure to be precise about the power of judicial review.

Of late, there has been criticism of the Basic Structure Doctrine on two major grounds, first, it was propounded for the first time by the Supreme Court in its judgment in Kesavananda Bharaticase ...

Basic structure doctrine a North Star that guides interpreters of Constitution, says CJI Chandrachud. The CJI said the craftsmanship of a judge lies in interpreting the text of the Constitution ...

He also said the basic structure doctrine formulated in 1973, which declared Parliament could not tamper with the basic features of the Constitution, was questionable. FPJ Shorts.

The basic structure doctrine remains India’s pride and the world’s envy. Bangladesh, Malaysia and Kenya have imported this Indian judicial invention.

Reacting to the debate that the basic structure of doctrine served the nation well, the former CJI raised the question on the fate of the nation and its citizens if the court had not held 39th and ...

Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Saturday said that the basic structure doctrine of the Constitution – which separates powers of the judiciary and the executive – is a guiding star ...