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How does the Supreme Court of India function as the “Guardian of the Constitution” and “protector of the rights of the citizens”?

  • UPSC 2004
  • Principal Organs of Government

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A written, supreme Constitution needs an organ that can say when an act passed in the forms of law is not law. The framers gave that task to the Supreme Court, which Granville Austin saw as an arm of India's social revolution and which Chief Justice M. Patanjali Sastri called a "sentinel on the qui…

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  • Guardian of the Constitution
  • Protector of citizens' rights
  • How far it has succeeded
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