Article 31A, was introduced to safeguard such measures going forward. Additionally, another retrospective provision, Article 31B, was introduced to validate 13 enactments pertaining
criminal proceedings. It provides protection against self-incrimination, double jeopardy, and retrospective punishment. Article 20(1) prohibits the imposition of retrospective punishment. It states that ... Rattan Lal v. The State of Punjab , the Supreme Court allowed for retrospective application of criminal laws in situations where the issue at hand concerns
nature of amendment, i.e., whether it is at all
retrospective in operation, and if not, whether the provision as
amended by the Second Amendment ... unless it is expressly or by necessary
implication made to have a retrospective operation. But the rule in
general is applicable where the object
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notification under this sub-section may be issued so as to have retrospective effect to a date not earlier than the 1st day of April
enforcement and to this extent it can be
retrospective. The question raised is whether
the amendment/substitution of the period with
effect from ... taken, the actions
cannot be questioned provided the law is
clearly retrospective. The only case in which no
further action can be taken
Acts, 1974
and 1975 apply to all and there is no discrimination. Retrospective
legislation is not by itself discrimination. The changes introduced ... Amendment Act, 1975 further enacted that the
amendments shall have retrospective operation so as to apply to and in
relation
application to such
cases. It was not intended to have retrospective operation
so as to take away this vested right ... Judiciary Act,
1903, on which the respondent relied, were not retrospective
so as to defeat a right in existence at the time when
master and servant and, therefore, the said section has no
retrospective effect. The Tribunal has held that the con-
cerned reference will have ... order, dated January 3, 1973, has
held that the section is retrospective in its operation and
that the employer has got a right to lead
Commissioner Of Income-Tax Bombay Etc vs Podar Cement Pvt. Ltd. Etc on 27 May