Kesavananda Bharati, seer whose Supreme Court case was genesis of ‘basic structure’, passes away

Kesavananda Bharati, the head of Edaneer Math, died on Sunday in his ashram in Kerala’s Kasargod at the age of 79. ​He was the petitioner in the historic Supreme Court case ‘Kesavananda Bharati vs the State of Kerala (1973) 4A SCC 225’ which had introduced the basic structure doctrine of the Constitution.