http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/901cada034f760fa https://verfassungsblog.de/sleeping-on-bills/ Sleeping on Bills - A Constitutional Misstep in India Gupta, Sarthak eng 2025-06-06 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 India India Indian Constitution Indian Supreme Court India Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 In a landmark judgment from April 2025, the Indian Supreme Court ruled that gubernatorial inaction is unconstitutional. Responding to the Governor of Tamil Nadu’s failure to act on ten bills, the Court declared such inaction “illegal” and reasserted limits to gubernatorial discretion. It not only imposed a timeframe for assent but also used its extraordinary powers to deem the bills passed.