Let's have a look at one of the Supreme Court of India landmark judgement
This has been written by Rashi Verma, Executive Editor (Legal)
Kesavananda Bharati V. State of Kerala
It is one of the most memorable Supreme Court case judgments filed in the year 1970. Keshvananda Bharati was the chief of Edneer Mutt, a religious sect in the Kasaragod district of Kerala. He had possessed certain pieces of land owned under his name. During that period, the state government of Kerala had introduced the Land Reforms Amendment Act, 1969.
When the petition was still under consideration by the court, a lot of amendments were already done by the Government during the case of Golaknath v. State of Punjab . The 13 judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgment, outlining the basic structure doctrine of the Constitution and providing stability to it. The SC held that although no part of the Constitution, including Fundamental Rights, was beyond the Parliament’s amending power, the “basic structure of the Constitution could not be abrogated even by a constitutional amendment.” Though the petitioner lost his case partially, yet it worked out as a savior of Indian democracy and saved the Constitution from losing its spirit.
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