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‘The role of the Indian Judiciary in recent years has been one of dynamic judicial activism.’ Elucidate.

  • UPSC 1991
  • Principal Organs of Government

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In 1976 the Supreme Court told detained citizens in ADM Jabalpur v. Shivkant Shukla that they could not seek habeas corpus during the Emergency; within four years it was treating a prisoner's letter as a writ petition. That reversal is what "dynamic" judicial activism means: widening the content of rights, opening the Court to those…

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  • Why the Court turned
  • The doctrinal engine: Article 21 re-read
  • The procedural engine: how it was done
  • Limits already visible
  • The trajectory since
  • Conclusion
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