Supreme Court rejects plea to remove ‘Socialist’, ‘Secular’ from Preamble
THE SUPREME COURT on Monday (25) dismissed pleas challenging the 1976 amendment to the Constitution adding the terms ‘socialist’, ‘secular’ and ‘integrity’ to the Preamble.
A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar had on November 22 reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas filed by former Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy, advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain and others challenging the inclusion of the words ‘socialist’ and ‘secular’ in the Preamble to the Constitution.