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6.2.1. Description

Article 13 deals with powers of judicial review. It makes the judiciary the guardian of Fundamental Rights in the country. It aims to secure the paramount status of the Constitution in case of Fundamental Rights. Judicial review is the power of the judiciary to declare any act of legislature as ultra vires (beyond the competence of the legislature to make the law) or null and void (illegal).