Supreme Court of India

Mrs. Santosh Singh v. Union of India & Anr.

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Reported as [2016] 5 S.C.R. 761
Bench T.S. Thakur and Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud JJ.
Decided 22 July 2016

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Constitution of India - Art. 32 - Public interest petition under - Seeking issuance of writ of mandamus for inclusion of moral science as a compulsory subject in the syllabus of school education from class I to XII - Held: - Courts are concerned with the issues of constitutionality and legality - The matters, solutions to which traverse the field of ideology, social theory, policy 111aking and experi111entation cannot be regulated by Supreme Court - Where an effort is made to bring issues of governance before the court, the basic touchstone on which invocation of jurisdiction 111ust rest is

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