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Which of the following Constitution Amendments empowers Parliament to establish common High court for two or more than two States?
9 th Constitutional Amendment Act
7 th Constitutional Amendment Act
6 th Constitutional Amendment Act
8 th Constitutional Amendment Act
7 th Constitutional Amendment Act
The 7th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1956, explicitly empowered Parliament to establish a common High Court for two or more states or for two or more states and a Union Territory. This landmark amendment reorganized states on a linguistic basis and brought significant structural changes to the Indian judicial and federal setup.
The 7th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1956, explicitly empowered Parliament to establish a common High Court for two or more states or for two or more states and a Union Territory. This landmark amendment reorganized states on a linguistic basis and brought significant structural changes to the Indian judicial and federal setup.
Article 231 of the Indian Constitution, enacted via the 7th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1956, authorizes Parliament to establish a common High Court for two or more States.
The 7th Constitutional Amendment Act was enacted in 1956 to implement the recommendations of the States Reorganisation Commission.
Article 231 of the Constitution grants Parliament the power to establish a single High Court for multiple states.
Examples include the Guwahati High Court, Bombay High Court, and Punjab & Haryana High Court.
Option B (7th Constitutional Amendment Act) is correct as it specifically amended Article 231 regarding common High Courts.
The 6th Amendment dealt with taxes on the sale or purchase of goods in inter-state trade.
The 9th Amendment facilitated the transfer of certain territories to Pakistan under the Indo-Pakistan agreement of 1958.
B is correct тАФ The 7th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1956 empowers Parliament to establish a common High Court for two or more States.
Always correlate major structural changes in India's judiciary and federal setup with the landmark 7th Constitutional Amendment Act of 1956, which also abolished the classification of states (Part A, B, C, D states).