70 Constitution …. The task of interpreting the provisions of the constitution is entrusted to the judiciary which is vested with the power to test the validity of the actions of any authority functioning under the Constitution … in order to ensure that the authority exercising constitution does the not power conferred transgress the by the limitations imposed by the Constitution on the exercise of that power. This power of judicial review is therefore implicit in expressly a written excluded constitution, the constitution by the power and provisions of judicial unless of review the is available in respect of the exercise of powers under any provision of the Constitution.’ Without going through all landmark decisions in the judicial review some history on the observations, question remarks of of judicial a renowned jurist are apt to mention here. On the inaugural sitting of the Supreme Court of India, Harilal Kanai, Chief ‘quite Justice of India, untouchable by said, the the court legislature must or be the executive authority in the performance of its duties.

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