The Ninth Schedule, which shields listed land-reform laws from challenge, was added to the Constitution by

the First Amendment, 1951Correct answerYour answerthe Seventh Amendment, 1956Correct answerYour answerthe 24th Amendment, 1971Correct answerYour answerthe 42nd Amendment, 1976Correct answerYour answer

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The First Amendment of 1951 created the Ninth Schedule so that land-reform laws placed in it could not be struck down for violating Fundamental Rights.
In I. R. Coelho (2007) the Supreme Court held that laws added after 24 April 1973 can still be tested against the basic structure.

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The Seventh Amendment of 1956 reorganised the States on linguistic lines; it did not add a Schedule of this kind.

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The Ninth Schedule, which shields listed land-reform laws from challenge, was added to the Constitution by

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