CONTENTS I. 0 Introduction 2.0 Background - Fundamental Rights in India 3.0 Wrangling over Property: An Account of the Conflict between the Judiciary and the Legislature 4.0 Amendments 5.0 The Repercussions of (Un) Constituting Property 6.0 Nationalisation of Banks and Abolition of Privy Purses 7.0 Basic structure doctrine reaffirmed- the Minerva Mills and Waman Rao cases 8.0 History of the Removal of the Fundamental Right to Property 9.0 Judiciary vs Legislature 10.0 The Parliament's Power to Amend 11.0 The Twenty-fourth Amendment Act, 1 971 1 2.0 The Twenty-fifth Amendment Act, 1971 13.o fundamental rights Case: The Decision that saved the Constitution but yet Killed the Right to Property 14.0 Fundamental rights' Case and Attitude of Judges towards Right to Property 1 5.0 The Forty-fourth Amendment: The Final Trespass into Right to Property 16.0 Are the Property Amendments beyond the Amending Power as Violating The Basic Structure of the Constitution? ANNEXURES