Supreme Court · 1978 INSC 249 · Decided 1 December 1978
In Re the Special Courts Bill, 1978 v. -
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1978 INSC 249 · [1979] 2 S.C.R. 476
- Case number
- SPECIAL REFERENCE CASE No. 1/1978
- Decided
- 1 December 1978
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, P.N. BHAGWATI, V.R. KRISHNA IYER, R.S. SARKARIA, N.L. UNTWALIA, S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI, P.N. SHINGAL (7-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC; Constitution Article 143, 143(1), 32
Headnote
Constitution of India--Art. 143-Scope of. Special Courts Bill-Parliament if has power to enact the Bill-Whether any of its provisions violate the rights under Articles 14 and 21. The draft Special Courts Bill 1978 introduced in the Parliament by seeks to create adequate number of courts to be called special ' courts. The Bill provides that a special court shall take cognizance of or tr~ such cases as are instituted before it or transferred to it in the manner provide.t ~ therein. If the Central Government is of opinion that there is
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