DEVINDER GUPTA, C. J.

( 1 ) THE impact of Part IX of the Constitution on the existing constitutional scheme and distribution of legislative powers under the panchayat Raj System;; and whether part IX gives limited autonomy or confers full autonomy without State s role in the functioning of the Panchayats are the core questions involved in these petitions. Whether Part IX of the Constitution overrides articles 245, 256 and List-II of the Seventh schedule of the Constitution is one of the consequential questions, which also fall for consideration. But the basic question is about the extent of the power of judicial review available in such like matters where the question is about the sufficiency or inadequacy of power or authority conferred upon the Panchayat Raj institutions.

( 2 ) WE had the benefit of perusing the separate Judgments prepared by our learned brothers G. Raghuram, J. and p. S. Narayana, J. Both the learned Judges have analysed the issues in detail with reference to the various provisions of the constitution, the A. P. Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (Act, No. 13 of 1994), the constitutional validity of which has been challenged in the petitions, the Rules framed thereunder an

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