State Government
Omitted by the Constitution (Forty-third Amendment) Act, 1977, s. 8 (w.e.f. 13-4-1978).
This article, inserted by the 42nd Amendment (1976) during the Emergency, once barred High Courts from even considering the constitutional validity of central (Union) laws when exercising their Article 226 writ jurisdiction - a significant curb on judicial review at the state level. It was repealed by the 43rd Amendment (1977), part of the same post-Emergency package that also removed Articles 31D, 32A, 131A, 144A, and 228A, restoring High Courts' full power to examine central laws' constitutionality.
This is another example (alongside Articles 131A and 144A) of the 42nd Amendment's attempt to significantly narrow judicial review during the Emergency, and the 43rd Amendment's subsequent reversal of that narrowing once the Emergency ended.