The Supreme Court Of India directed the hearing of a petition filed by Dr. Subramaniyam Swamy to delete the words secular and socialist to delete from the Preamble.
Now the hearing on the same will be conducted on 29 April, ruled a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Dutta. - Supreme Court To Hear In April Subramanian Swamy s Plea To Delete Secular Socialist From Preamble
In the Article 370 case, the Supreme Court categorically held that amendments to substantive provisions of the Constitution cannot be made by executive notifications. The amendments to Constitutional.
The bench noted that Article 3 says that parliament may, by law, form new States and alter areas, boundaries or names of the existing States, and this power extends to UTs.