Supreme Court · 1980 INSC 142 · Decided 31 July 1980
Minerva Mills LTD. & Ors v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1980 INSC 142 · [1981] 1 S.C.R. 206
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 356/1977
- Decided
- 31 July 1980
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, P.N. BHAGWATI, A.C. GUPTA, N.L. UNTWALIA, P.S. KAILASAM (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 368, 31B, 4, 55
Headnote
Constttution of India Forty Second Amendment Act, Sections 4 and 55- Whether the Sections are beyond' t/ie amending· power of' the· Parliament under· Article 368 of the Constitution and· therefore void-Whether the Directive Pri11- ciples of State policy contai11ed in ca11 have primacy over the fundamental rights conferred by Part III of the Co11stitution-Consti- · tutio11 of India A.rtlcles 14, 19, 31C, 38 and 368: Minerva Mills Ltd. is a limited company dealing in textiles. On August 20, 1970 the Central Government appointed a committee
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