Court : Punjab and Haryana
Reported in : AIR1987P& H263
..... the vires of the amendment act was challenged by shri shanti bhushan, the learned counsel for the petitioners, on the ground that it has eroded the basic structure of the constitution in three ways namely that clause (b) of para 2 is destructive of the parliamentary democracy and the federal structure, the two basic features and paras 6 and 7 of the power of judicial review of the high court and the supreme court under arts. ..... were fundamentally illegal, being in violation of that sound public policy which is essential to the working of a representative government as is evident from the following passage in the judgment:--'it is in these circumstances, my lords that i find myself compelled to consider this appeal upon the other ground taken, involving an examination of the conditions which accompany the payment under the constitution of the labour party, namely the round that the contributions are to be devoted to the payment of members of parliament, who accept the same under obligations inconsistent with our parliamentary ..... state of kerala, air 1973 sc 1461 and the constitution bench decision in smt. .....
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