Important issues

• The Supreme Court of India has been criticized by the ruling BJP and Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar for intruding into executive and legislative functions.

• The Court has been urged to direct the Centre to address violence in West Bengal and curtail obscene content on online platforms.

• Judicial review of legislative and executive decisions is integral to India’s constitutional democracy.

• The judiciary has the power to strike down laws violating fundamental rights and issue writs for the enforcement of fundamental rights.

• The notion that the judiciary is subservient to the legislature is out of line with the constitutional scheme.

• The erasure of the distinction between the executive and legislature has created a crisis of accountability in governance at the national and State level in India.

• The attempt to intimidate the judiciary in the name of legislative supremacy is a threat to democracy.