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This document summarizes a Supreme Court of India case from 1967 regarding the power to amend the Indian Constitution. The Court held that fundamental rights cannot be amended using the procedure in Article 368. An amendment is considered a "law" under Article 13(2) and is therefore subject to the limitations in Part III of the Constitution dealing with fundamental rights. This overturned previous cases and established that Parliament does not have the power to modify fundamental rights through the amendmen

Author

R Vigneshwar

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