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Although the power of judicial review does not require an express recognition in a constitutional text, Article 13(2) of the Indian Constitution provides such recognition by laying down that the state 'shall not make any law which takes away or abridges' the fundamental rights. The remedy to approach the Supreme Court for violation of fundamental rights under Article 32 is in itself a fundamental right. (A similar - in fact wider - power is vested with the High Courts under Article 226.) The Court has widened the scope of this power over the years by (i) 
implying many new rights within the ambit of Article 21; (ii) chartering the course of public interest litigation as a tool of deepening justice to the masses; (iii) declaring judicial review a 'basic feature' of the Constitution and thus putting this beyond the Parliament's amendment power; and (iv) conferring on itself the power to review the validity of even constitutional amendments.
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