{"id":1146,"date":"2026-05-28T11:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:59:16","slug":"article-142-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/article-142-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Article 142"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Article 142<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Article 142 of the Indian constitution grants the Supreme Court the\u00a0<strong>extraordinary power<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0<strong>pass any order\u00a0deemed\u00a0necessary for \u2018complete justice\u2019\u00a0<\/strong>in any case or matter pending before it.\u00a0\u00a0\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It also makes such decree or\u00a0order\u00a0<strong>enforceable throughout the territory of India.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group border-list\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Did you know?<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list listborder\">\n<li>Article 142 traces its roots back to Section 210 of the<strong>\u00a0Government of India Act, 1935<\/strong>, which was passed by the British Parliament.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This provision has been pivotal in shaping some of India\u2019s landmark decisions like\u00a0facilitating\u00a0compensation for victims of the\u00a0<strong>Bhopal Gas Tragedy<\/strong>,\u00a0establishing\u00a0<strong>Visakha guidelines<\/strong>\u00a0to address sexual harassment at workplaces, etc.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Article 142 gives the Supreme Court a unique power to\u00a0<strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">transcend the limitations of law or statute<\/mark><\/strong>\u00a0in order to\u00a0ensure justice for the parties involved.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It enhances the Supreme Court&#8217;s role as the<strong>\u00a0guardian of the constitution and the final arbiter of the law<\/strong>, and as a\u00a0<strong>source of judicial activism and innovation.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article 142 About Did you know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}