The Supreme Court of India, in a landmark verdict, declared the 99th Constitutional Amendment and the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act void and unconstitutional. While this is not an entirely unexpected consequence from the standpoint of the legal and constitutional framework provided for the establishment of the NJAC, the Supreme Court has upheld the values of constitutionalism and independence of judiciary—a “basic structure” of the Constitution. The court called it a “collective order”.