by which the Constitution was recast extensively, gave power to the Central Government to bring it into force.
Under Article 32 of the Constitution of India R K Garg, V.J. Francis and Sunil R. Jain for the Petitioners in WP.
That amendment was brought into force by the Central Government on December 1, 1963.
N. Sinha, Attorney General and Altaf Ahmed for Inter vener No.
N. Sinha, Attorney General, Ram Balak Mahto, Additional Advocate General, K.G. Bhagat and D. Goburdhan for Respondents 2 3 in WP.
That amendment was brought into force on July 1, 1974.
N. Sinha, Attorney General, K Parasaran, Solicitor General, M.K Banerjee, Additional Solicitor General, KS.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Writ Petitions Nos 5724, 5874 5433 of 1980.
The 42nd Amendment, 1976.
Those remaining provisions were brought into force by the Central Government on February 15, 1972.
For Interveners M. Tarkunde, P.H. Parekh, Miss Manik Tarkunde and N, Karanjawala for Intervener No 1.
Bhim Singh intervener No.
Subbash C. Maheshwari, Additional, Advocate General, P. Rana, Hansraj Bhardwaj and R.K. Bhatt for Respondents 2 3 in WP.
The following Judgments were delivered CHANDRACHUD, C.J. This is a group of Writ Petitions under Article 32 of the Constitution challenging the validity of the National Security ordinance, 2 of 1980, and certain provisions of the National Security Act, 65 of 1980, which replaced the ordinance.
The 27th Amendment, 1971 brought section 3 thereof into force at once, while the remaining provisions were to companye into force on a date appointed by the Central Government, which was number to be earlier than a certain date mentioned in section 1 2 of the Amending Act.
Gurumurthi Miss A. Subhashini and Girish Chandra for Respondent No.
5724/80.
5724 of 1980 is by Shri A. K. Roy, a Marxist member of the Parliament, who was detained under the ordinance by an order passed by the District Magistrate, Dhanbad, on the ground that he was indulging in activities which were prejudicial to public order.
1 in all the WPs.
The 32nd Amendment, 1973, also provided by section 1 2 that it 11 shall companye into force on a date appointed by the Central Government.
5724 5874 and for interveners 3 12.
M. Ghatate, S.V. Deshpande and Shiva Pujan Singh for the petitioner in WP.
2 in person Dr. L.M. Singhvi, Anand Prakash, S.N. Kaekar, G. Mukhoty, B.B. Sinha, A.K Srivastava, Randhir Jain, M.L. Lahoty, Kapil Sibal, L K Pandey and S.S. Khanduja for Intervener No.
Mrs. Subhadra Joshi for Intervener No 14.
5874180.
Writ Petition No.
Ram Jethmalani and Miss Rani Jethmalani for Intervener No, 15.
Ten members of the Parliament, one an Independent and the others belonging to various political parties in opposition applied for permission to intervene in the Writ Petition on the ground that since the ordinance making power of the President is destructive of the system of Parliamentary democracy, it is necessary to define the scope of that power.
