I. C. GOLAKNATH & ORS. / N KRISHNA BHATTA GODAVARI SUGAR MILLS MAHARASHTRA PRAGAT SHETKARI SANGH RAJGOPAL RAMDAYAL DOOT P RAMAKRISHNA MALLY SRINIVAS RAMDAYAL DOOT Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB:STATE OF MYSORE :STATE OF MYSORE :STATE OF MYSORE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE following Judgments of the court were delivered by

(2.) THESE three writ petitions raise the important question of the validity of the Constitution (Seventeenth Amendment) Act, 1964.

(3.) THE States of Punjab and Mysore, inter alia, contended that the said Acts were saved from attack on the ground that they infringed the fundamental rights of the petitioners by reason of the Constitution (Seventeenth Amendment) Act, 1964, which, by amending Art. 31-A of the Constitution and including the said two Arts in the 9th Schedule thereto, had placed them beyond attack.