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Supreme Court of India · 1986
The Supreme Court held that repeatedly re-promulgating the same ordinance, without ever placing it before the legislature, is unconstitutional. The Court called it a fraud on the Constitution and a colourable exercise of power. The case limits the ordinance power under Article 213 (and Article 123) to genuine emergencies, so that the executive cannot replace the legislature as the law-maker.
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