The judiciary and the Modi government have been in a war of words over judicial appointments. While this debate is not new, the intensity has increased since a new chief justice, DY Chandrachud, took ...

The historically acclaimed 1973 Kesavananda Bharati judgment by an unprecedented 13-judge bench, by a majority of 7:6, propounded the "basic structure" doctrine and held that the soul of the ...

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, reported ...

Congress criticizes former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi for calling the basic structure doctrine of the Indian Constitution 'debatable'. The Congress party on Monday hit out at former Chief ...

AFTER an extended break, I have returned to penning this column. In the past decade, we have witnessed a judicial renaissance that started with the Federal Court's decision in Sivarasa Rasiah v Badan ...