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Legal Studies Question on Constitutional Laws

The power to promulgate an Ordinance is essentially a power to be used to meet an extraordinary situation and it cannot be allowed to be "perverted to serve political ends"... if the Executive were permitted to continue the provisions of an ordinance in force by adopting the methodology of re-promulgating without submitting to the voice of the Legislature, it would be nothing short of the usurpation by the Executive of the law-making function of the Legislature..."
The above statement has been quoted from the case decided by the Supreme Court of India. Please select the case carrying above quotation from the following:

A

D.P. Joshi v. State of Madhya Bharat, AIR 1955 SC 334

B

D.R. Nim v. Union of India, AIR 1967 SC 1301

C

D.S. Nakara v. Union of India, AIR 1983 SC 130

D

D.C. Wadhwa v. State of Bihar, AIR 1987 SC 579

Answer

D.C. Wadhwa v. State of Bihar, AIR 1987 SC 579

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Solution

The correct option is (D): D.C. Wadhwa v. State of Bihar, AIR 1987 SC 579