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Recently, an ideological dialogue happened in the Indian Supreme Court on Article 39(b) of the Constitution. The judgment by a nine-judge Bench in Property Owners Association v. State of Maharashtra last Tuesday reflects a division of opinion on the topic, though the majority on the Bench laid down the law. Constitutional socialism, like political socialism, has…
Not all privately owned properties qualify as community resources that the State can take over for the common good, the Supreme Court said in a landmark verdict today. The nine-judge Constitution bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud delivered the judgment on the vexed issue with an 8-1 majority. Three judgments were authored…
Chief Justice DY Chandrachud said we regard property as something of holding in trust New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the Constitution intended to bring about a “sense of social transformation” and it would be “dangerous” to say that the private property of an individual cannot be regarded as material resources of community…
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