Examine the developments that gave rise to the conflict between the Union
Government and the Judiciary in India.
Causes of confrontation between the Union Government and the Judiciary.
(i) Constitutional issue about the amendment to the Fundamental Rights.
(ii) Can the Parliament curtail the Right to Property by amending the constitution?
(iii) The Parliament amended and abridged the Fundamental Rights to implement DPSPs. But the Judiciary did not agree to this.
(iv) It is in the Keshvananda Bharti Case when the Judiciary asserted that the basic features of the constitution cannot be amended even by the Parliament.
(v) Filling up the vacancy of the Chief Justice of India by not appointing the senior most judge.
(vi) The climax of the confrontation was the ruling of the Allahabad High Court declaring Indira Gandhi’s election invalid.
