India, Nov. 19 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down several provisions of the Tribunal Reforms Act, 2021, including the four-year tenure for tribunal members and the minimum age of 50 for appointments, holding that Parliament had effectively resurrected provisions earlier invalidated by the top court and thereby committed an impermissible act of "legislative overwrite".

Delivering a strongly worded judgment, a bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bhushan R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran held that the 2021 Act was "mostly a reproduction" of the Tribunal Reforms Ordinance that the court had struck down in July 2021.

The bench expressed its "displeasure" at the Union government's repeated failure to implement judicial...