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The document discusses two cases related to the doctrine of eclipse in India: 1) In Keshavan Madhava Menon v. The State of Bombay, an existing law imposed restrictions on fundamental rights that could not be justified. The court found the law became void "to the extent of such inconsistency" with fundamental rights, not for all purposes. 2) In AK Gopalan v. State of Madras, the Supreme Court held that if a law is repugnant to the Constitution, only the repugnant provisions are void, not the whole law. If the invalid part can be severed without changing the overall nature of the law, it is severable. The court found one section

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The document discusses two cases related to the doctrine of eclipse in India: 1) In Keshavan Madhava Menon v. The State of Bombay, an existing law imposed restrictions on fundamental rights that could not be justified. The court found the law became void "to the extent of such inconsistency" with fundamental rights, not for all purposes. 2) In AK Gopalan v. State of Madras, the Supreme Court held that if a law is repugnant to the Constitution, only the repugnant provisions are void, not the whole law. If the invalid part can be severed without changing the overall nature of the law, it is severable. The court found one section

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Keshavan Madhava Menon v.

The State of Bombay[7]

In this case, the law in question was an existing law at the time when the Constitution came
into force. That existing law imposed on the exercise of the right guaranteed to the citizens of
India by article 19(1)(g) restrictions which could not be justified as reasonable under clause
(6) as it then stood and consequently under article 13(1)[8] that existing law became void
“to the extent of such inconsistency”.

The court said that the law became void not in to or for all purposes or for all times or for all
persons but only “to the extent of such inconsistency”, that is to say, to the extent it
became inconsistent with the provisions of Part III which conferred the fundamental
rights of the citizens.

Thus the Doctrine of Eclipse provides for the validation of Pre-Constitution Laws that violate
fundamental rights upon the premise that such laws are not null and void ab initio but become
unenforceable only to the extent of such inconsistency with the fundamental rights. If any
subsequent amendment to the Constitution removes the inconsistency or the conflict of the
existing law with the fundamental rights, then the Eclipse vanishes and that particular law
again becomes active again.

Case: AK Gopalan v. State of Madras[9]

In this case, the Supreme Court said that in case of repugnancy to the Constitution, only the
repugnant provision of the impugned Act will be void and not the whole of it, and every
attempt should be made to save as much as possible of the Act. If the omission of the invalid
part will not change the nature or the structure of the object of the legislature, it is severable.
It was held that except Section 14 all other sections of the Preventive Detention Act, 1950
were valid, and since Section 14 could be severed from the rest of the Act, the detention of
the petitioner was not illegal.

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