Eminent domain refers to the inherent power of the State to take private property for public use, upon payment of just compensation to the owner. It represents one...
Article 370 has been characterized in the Constitution as being of a temporary nature. Article 370 (3) says that the President, by public notification, may declare that Article...
Many a time, a legislature may enact composite legislation which may be based on more than one legislative entry. There is no bar against Parliament or the State...
A civil proceeding refers to the legal process undertaken in a civil court to resolve non-criminal disputes between individuals, organisations, or government entities. These proceedings are designed to...
Article 3 enables Parliament to effect by law reorganization inter se of the territories of the States constituting the Indian Union. Parliament is empowered or enact law to...
A detention order may be quashed on the ground of colourable exercise of power if there is no rational material for the subjective satisfaction of the detaining authority,...
The question has been considered by the Court from time to time, and several such features have been identified, but the matter still remains an open one. In...
The Chief Justice equated Fundamental Rights with the natural rights and characterized them as “the primordial rights necessary for the development of human personality”. He took the position...
The case of Golak Nath v. State of Punjab (1967 AIR 1643, 1967 SCR (2) 762) stands as a landmark decision in the constitutional history of India. Decided...
An amendment of the Indian Constitution may be initiated only by the introduction of a Bill for the purpose in either House of Parliament, and when the Bill...