Consider the following statements :
- 1.The Parliament of India can place a particular law in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution of India.
- 2.The validity of a law placed in the Ninth Schedule cannot be examined by any court and no judgement can be made on it.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
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Answer: A. Statement 1 is correct: Parliament can add a law to the Ninth Schedule through a constitutional amendment (Article 31B). Statement 2 is wrong: in I.R. Coelho v. State of Tamil Nadu (2007), the Supreme Court held that laws added after 24 April 1973 can be reviewed if they violate the basic structure. So only 1.
Watch for: The original idea of the Ninth Schedule was immunity from courts, but the 2007 Coelho judgment changed that.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. Wrong because courts can review Ninth Schedule laws for basic structure violations.
- C. Wrong because statement 2 is false after the I.R. Coelho judgment.
- D. Wrong because statement 1 is true.
Source to check: Constitution of India, Article 31B and Ninth Schedule; I.R. Coelho v. State of Tamil Nadu (2007), Supreme Court
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