New Delhi: Underlining constitutional limits for both judiciary and legislative institutions, the Supreme Court Thursday said a Governor or President cannot be compelled to act on a Bill within a fixed number of days as it would not just be “antithetical” to the spirit of the Constitution, but also to the doctrine of separation of powers.

To set a judicial mandate for the two Constitutional posts would amount to usurpation of powers exclusively meant for the gubernatorial positions, it said.

A five-judge bench led by Chief Justice B.R. Gavai also said that a Bill does not automatically become a law if the Governor or the President delay action on it. Show Full Article

Further, the court said that any action taken on a Bill was non-justiciable and judicial intervention can only be soug

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