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PSIR Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write: Public Interest Litigation and Judicial Activism.

  • UPSC 1999
  • Principal Organs of Government

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Judicial activism is a disposition — a court extending its interpretive and remedial reach to shape what other organs must do. Public interest litigation (PIL) is a procedure — relaxed standing, letter petitions and court-led fact-finding. In India the two fused after the Emergency, so that PIL became the principal vehicle of activism; but they…

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  • PIL as the engine of activism
  • Activism without PIL
  • PIL without activism
  • Evaluation
  • Conclusion
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