Supreme Court Upholds ‘Socialist’ and ‘Secular’ in Preamble
The Supreme Court on November 25, 2024 dismissed a batch of writ petitions that sought to strike down the insertion of the words “socialist” and “secular” into the Preamble by the Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act, 1976. A two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar delivered a short but firm ruling: the…