Article 131 of the Constitution
- Recently Kerala and Chhattisgarh government filed suits in the Supreme court challenging the constitutional validity of CAA 2019 and NIA Act 2008 respectively under Article 131 of the Indian Constitution.
- Article 131 confers original jurisdiction on the Supreme Court to adjudicate disputes between two or more States, or between States and the Centre. This means no other court can entertain such a dispute.
- For a dispute to qualify as a dispute under Article 131, it has to necessarily be between states and the Centre, and must involve a question of law or fact on which the existence of a legal right of ....
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