Constitution (Twenty‑sixth Amendment) Act, 1971

The petition challenged the constitutional validity of the Kerala Joint Hindu Family System (Abolition) Amendment Act, 1978, which omitted Sections 4 and 5 of the 1961 Valiamma Thampuram Kovilakam Estate and Palace Fund (Partition) Act and excluded civil‑court jurisdiction over partition of the Cochin royal estate. The…

The case concerns the management of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, which has been historically managed by the Travancore royal family. After the integration of princely states, a Covenant in 1949 and the Travancore-Cochin Hindu Religious Institutions Act, 1950 preserved the Ruler's control over the …

Dr. Karan Singh, son of the former Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir, claimed that 563 heirloom articles in the state Toshakhana were his private property. After a 1983 representation to the Ministry of Home Affairs was rejected, he filed a writ petition which was partially allowed by the High Court, declaring 42 items his. …

The petitioners, former rulers of Indian princely states, challenged the Constitution (Twenty‑sixth Amendment) Act, 1971 which repealed Articles 291 and 362 and amended Article 366(22), thereby abolishing privy purses and royal privileges. They argued that the amendment violated the basic structure doctrine, exceeded P…