CLAT UG · Legal Reasoning & Constitutional Law
Constitutional Law: Directive Principles, Writs and Federal Structure
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- Principle: The writ of Habeas Corpus is issued to secure the release of a person who is detained unlawfully without legal justification.
Facts: A person is arrested by police and detained for 72 hours… - Principle: The writ of Mandamus lies to compel the performance of a public statutory duty by an authority.
Facts: A municipal corporation refuses to grant a water connection despite the applicant fulf… - Principle: The doctrine of Pith and Substance examines the true nature and character of an enactment to determine legislative competence under Seventh Schedule.
Facts: State legislature enacts a law r… - Principle: Under Article 13(2), the State shall not make any law which takes away or abridges fundamental rights, and any law made in contravention shall be void.
Facts: Parliament passes a statute im… - Principle: Directive Principles of State Policy (Part IV) are fundamental in the governance of the country but are not enforceable by any court under Article 37.
Facts: A citizen files a writ petition… - Principle: Quo Warranto is issued to enquire into the legality of the claim which a party asserts to a public office.
Facts: A person who does not meet the statutory eligibility qualifications is appo… - Principle: The doctrine of Colorable Legislation states that what the legislature cannot do directly, it cannot do indirectly.
Facts: A state legislature lacks power to tax mineral rights, so it impos… - Principle: Article 20(1) prohibits ex-post facto criminal laws that impose penalties greater than that which might have been inflicted under the law in force at the time of commission.
Facts: A person… - Principle: Article 20(2) embodies the protection against Double Jeopardy: no person shall be prosecuted and punished for the same offence more than once.
Facts: A government employee is dismissed from… - Principle: Article 20(3) guarantees that no person accused of any offence shall be compelled to be a witness against himself.
Facts: Police forcibly subject an accused in custody to involuntary narco…
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