66 Marbury and lavish attention on the topic of judicial review.’ The power of judicial review was implicit in the Government frequently of India exercised Act, by the 1935, and had been courts of India. The power was, however, expressly conferred by the Indian constitution. Motilal C. Setalvad, in his book ‘My life – Law and other things’ stated that after Marbury’s decision explaining why such a function was the legitimate function of the judicial department, it was perhaps to avoid a controversy of this kind that Indian constitution makers had made express provision for judicial review. Judicial review needs to be set in the context of mechanisms which seek to activate broader political accountability. The exercise of government power must be controlled in order that it should not be destructive of the very values which it was intended to promote (Lord Steyn, “The Weakest and Least Dangerous Department of Government”). There is a growing appreciation that the courts and Parliament have distinct and complementary constitutional roles