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HCS (Haryana)Prelims2022General Studies
Question
I R Coelho judgment (2007) of the Supreme Court deals with:
Options
- A Autonomous institutions
- B Scheduled Areas
- C Basic Structure of the Constitution
- D None of the above
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Correct Answer
C Basic Structure of the Constitution
Model Answer
- IR Coelho Case marked the historical judgment.
- In this case, nine judges' bench was supervised by the tenth justice of India.
- It is popularly known as the 9th schedule case.
- This judgment was published by Y.K. Sabharwal.
- Through this legislature judges tried to shield measures that violate fundamental rights.
- The Supreme Court ruled that laws falling under the Ninth Schedule cannot have any blanket immunity from judicial review.
- Supreme Court clarified that judicial review is a ‘basic feature’ of the constitution and cannot be taken away by even using Ninth Schedule. Hence option B is correct.
9th schedule of the Indian constitution
- The government introduced articles 31A and 31B to safeguard the laws that deal with agriculture and the Zamindari system.
- Article 31B had 13 laws - that focuses on land reforms.
- Now it has 284 laws.
- Some other cases inspired by the IR Coelho case are The Kesavananda Bharati case and The Waman Rao Case.