All the leading legal experts in the country had once pointed out that the verdict of the two-judge bench of the Supreme Court last April, which set a three-month deadline for the President and the Governors to take further action on bills passed by the Assembly, was wrong. The Constitution does not provide for such a time limit, so the court does not have the legal authority to set a time limit of three months. The two-judge bench's judgment was one of the biggest examples of how court judgments can be made even after the law is passed. The power to set a time limit lies with Parliament. That too, if the Constitutional Amendment Bill is passed in a manner that complies with the prescribed criteria. This is something that any citizen with a basic education knows. The court has the power to

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