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The Division Bench of this Court, in Govindbhai Hirabhai Surati's case (supra), while upholding the validity, held as under :-
"The Court has read and reread the provisions of Section 48-A extracted above, with the assistance of the learned counsels appearing for the parties, but, has not been able to find any fetter on the right of the petitioners to invoke the power of `judicial review' of the Courts having such power.
Undoubtedly, power of 'judicial review' has been identified as one of the basic structures of the Constitution, and any attempt to take away that power from its repository would be unconstitutional. In the instant case, there is no inkling of any such attempt by any stretch of imagination. The argument of the learned counsel of the petitioners in this regard is totally devoid of substance, and deserves to be rejected.