Kesavananda Bharati (KB) vs State of Kerala — a landmark case that defined the concept of the basic structure doctrine of the Indian Constitution — completes 50 years on April 24, and this is ...

That structure — a democratic, secular, federal republic which preserves separation of powers — is the very DNA of India. It gave birth to the basic structure doctrine, a safeguard against ...

Of late, there has been criticism of the Basic Structure Doctrine on two major grounds, first, it was propounded for the first time by the Supreme Court in its judgment in Kesavananda Bharaticase ...

The case which birthed basic structure was titled ‘Kesavananda Bharati and Ors v State of Kerala’. Ever since this doctrine was formulated in 1973, several important decisions of the ...