The Kesavananda Bharati verdict answered anxieties building up in India over creeping autocracy and judicial pushback against socialist policies. The basic structure doctrine struck a tenuous ...
In the Indian context, the doctrine of basic structure was comprehensively dealt with in the Kesavananda Bharati v State of Kerela case (1973), where the bench was split 9 to 4 as they delivered ...
Then accepted only in part by Justice Subba Rao, Nambyar's "implied limitations" came to be successfully argued in Kesavananda Bharati by none other than Nani Palkhiwala," CJI said. CJI ...