SC junks pleas challenging words ‘socialist’, ‘secular’ in Preamble to Constitution

SC junks pleas challenging words ‘socialist’, ‘secular’ in Preamble to Constitution

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the pleas challenging the 1976 amendment to the Constitution adding terms “socialist”, “secular” and “integrity” to the Preamble. A bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar had on November 22 reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas filed by former Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy, … Read more