Role of Courts in Legislatures Privileges | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

The troika Legislature, Judiciary and Executive, are the three different but important limbs of the Constitution which are complementary and supplementary to each other. The Constitution provides constraints on state's action since a sound government is the one which is based on checks and balances. This is the ethos of India's Constitution. Though, under the Constitution the powers of the two institutions, legislature and judiciary are separate yet they are marked by some sort if interrelationship in which the role of the judiciary is much more predominant. The greatest reservoir for supplying power to the judiciary to invalidate a statute is provided by the fundamental rights mainly by Article 14 and 19, but almost since the inception of the constitution, an attempt has been made by the Parliament to weaken this reservoir, further it is thought that the Acts passed by the legislature are supposed to be superior as compared to the judges because the former are the representatives of the peoples and thus, there is the necessity of the judicial self-restraint.