Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1065 · Decided 24 August 2009
Consumer Education & Research Society v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1065 · [2009] 13 S.C.R. 664
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 448/2006
- Decided
- 24 August 2009
- Bench
- K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, R.V. RAVEENDRAN, J.M. PANCHAL (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 102(1)(a), 101, 101(3)(a), 103(1), 101to104, 14
Headnote
Parliament (Prevention of disqualification) Act, 1959 ' s. 3[as amended by Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Amendment Act, 2006] - Certain offices of profit not to disqualify - Addition to offices of profit with retrospective effect - Challenged - Held: is constitutionally valid - Power of Parliament to enact a law under Article 102(1)(a) of the Constitution includes the power to enact such law retrospectively - A law can be made retrospectively to remove the disqualification incurred on account of holding offices of profit - Which
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