{"id":7327,"date":"2022-11-05T03:42:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T22:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7327"},"modified":"2025-03-28T20:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:31:17","slug":"article-142-of-constitution-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/article-142-of-constitution-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Article 142 of Constitution of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Article 142 of Constitution of India:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Article 142 of Constitution:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong>Enforcement of decrees, orders of Supreme Court and orders as to discovery, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Provisions:<\/strong>This article has 2 provisions \u2013\n<ul>\n<li><strong>142(1):\u00a0<\/strong>The Supreme Court may pass an order for\u00a0doing complete justice.<\/li>\n<li><strong>142(2):<\/strong>It confers three different powers on the Supreme Court. They are:\n<ul>\n<li>Securing the\u00a0attendance of persons\u00a0before it.<\/li>\n<li>Discovery and production of\u00a0documents\u00a0and<\/li>\n<li>Investigation and punishment of\u00a0contempt of itself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Article 142(1): Doing Complete Justice:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>objective of Article 142(1)<\/strong>\u00a0is that the Supreme Court must not be dependent on the executive for the enforcement of its decrees and orders.<\/li>\n<li>Such dependence would otherwise violate the principles of independence of the judiciary and separation of powers, both of which are part of the basic structure of the Constitution.<\/li>\n<li>In\u00a0<strong>Supreme Court Bar Association v. Union of India (1998),<\/strong>\u00a0it was decided that this article\n<ul>\n<li>Cannot be used to over-ride the existing law, but only to supplement the law and<\/li>\n<li>Can be invoked for procedure purposes only.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=G98AFN3O1.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article 142 provides discretionary power to the Supreme Court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}