{"id":2220,"date":"2024-04-26T03:13:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T21:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2024-04-26T03:13:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T21:43:31","slug":"q-consider-the-following-statements-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-consider-the-following-statements-109","title":{"rendered":"Q. Consider the following statements:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. The Parliament of India\u00a0can place<\/strong>\u00a0a particular law in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution of India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The validity of a law placed in the Ninth Schedule\u00a0cannot be examined by any court<\/strong>\u00a0and no judgement can be made on it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Which of the statements given above is\/are correct?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • 1 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 2 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Both 1 and 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Neither 1 nor 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      Answer: (a) 1 only<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

      Notes:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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      • The\u00a0Ninth Schedule<\/strong>\u00a0was added to the Constitution by the\u00a0first amendment in 1951<\/strong>\u00a0along with\u00a0Article 31-B<\/strong>\u00a0with a view to providing a \u201cprotective umbrella\u201d to land reform laws to save them from being challenged in courts on the ground of violation of fundamental rights.\n
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        • The\u00a0SC upheld the validity of Article 31-B\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Parliament\u2019s power to place a particular law in the Ninth Schedule.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • The\u00a0Supreme Court<\/strong>\u00a0has said that\u00a0laws placed in the Ninth Schedule<\/strong>\u00a0are\u00a0open to judicial scrutiny<\/strong>\u00a0and that such laws do not enjoy blanket protection.\n
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          • Waman Rao v. Union of India (1981):\u00a0<\/strong>In this significant decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the\u00a0amendments made after 24th April 1973<\/strong>\u00a0in Ninth Schedule can be challenged on the grounds of constitutionality.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • The landmark ruling in\u00a0IR Coelho versus State of Tamil Nadu<\/strong>, 2007, the Supreme Court of India ruled that all laws (including those in the Ninth Schedule) would be\u00a0open to Judicial Review if they violated the basic structure of the constitution.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Laws placed in the Ninth Schedule\u00a0after the Kesavananda Bharati\u00a0judgment<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0April 24, 1973<\/strong>, when it propounded the \u201cbasic structure\u201d doctrine,\u00a0were open to judicial review<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Which of the statements given above is\/are correct? Answer: (a) 1 only Notes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[39],"years":[55],"class_list":["post-2220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-indian-polity","years-55"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":39,"label":"Indian Polity"}],"years":[{"value":55,"label":"2018"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":39,"name":"Indian Polity","slug":"indian-polity","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":39,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":188,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}