Question

The power of judicial review ensures…….
A)The supremacy of the Supreme Court.
B)That the Supreme Court can review its own judgments.
C)The constitutionality of laws.
D)Just justice by the subordinate courts.

Answer 1

Hint: 1)The power of Judicial Review is mentioned in Article 226 and 227 of the Indian Constitution.
2)This power was established in the case of Marbury v. Madison in the year 1803 in the US.
3)This power gives the right to the federal courts to announce the legislative and executive acts as Unconstitutional.

Complete answer:
The Judiciary plays a very essential role of conservation of the constitutional values which gives us freedom. They try to revert the harm that is being done by the legislature and the executive and give every citizen the rights that have been promised by the Constitution under the Directive Principles of State Policy. All this is possible only by the power of judicial review that the Supreme Court possesses.

Judiciary has been facing the problems of Judiciary use by the politicians, technocrats, academicians, lawyers etc. for their benefits. Few of them are very serious concerns, and among one of them is the aspect of corruption and power of criminal contempt. This solution throws light on the ups and downs of this greatest institution in India.

The rule of law forms the base of democracy and the important accountability for implementation of the rule of law lies with the judiciary. This is now a basic feature of each and every constitution, which cannot be changed when they exercise new powers from parliament. The principle of judicial review became an important feature of written Constitutions in many countries. ‘Seervai’ in his book Constitutional Law of India highlighted that the principle of judicial review is a similar feature of the Constitutions of Canada,
Australia and India, although the Doctrine of Separation of Powers is not explicitly written in Indian Constitution, but the functions of different organs of the Government have been well differentiated, so that one organ of the Government could not interfere in another.

Hence, the correct answer is option (C)

Note: Some of the prominent cases of Judicial Review in India are:
1)Shankari Prasad vs. Union of India
2)I. R. Coelho vs. State of Tamil Nadu
3)Indira Nehru Gandhi vs. Raj Narnia (1975).