Judicial restraint refers to the proposition that judges must restrain their utilization of their power for striking down laws or pronouncing illegal or unjustifiable, unless there have been glaring clash with the Constitution. The Constitution of India did not give power to judiciary to be super law making body or substitute for the other two organs. One of the cases of judicial restraint is in the case of State of Rajasthan v/s Union of India, in which court dismissed the appeal on the ground that it included political inquiry and court would not go to the matter. In the case of S.R Bommai v/s Union of India, in which court rules that where only political component rules and no legal interpretation could be conceived. The consultation under Article 356 was political inquiry in which courts must not meddle and court in the case of Almitra H. Patel v/sUnion of India, the issue was that whether guidelines can be issued by Supreme Court to Municipal Corporation regarding the cleaning of Delhi, the court held that it was not for Supreme Court to guide them about essential capacities and resolved their trouble, court would just direct the expert for completing their obligation doles on them by law. The former Chief Justice of India, A.S Anand, opined that legal activism must not lead to “legal adventurism”, the judges must be watchful and self-trained while releasing their legal capacity. The negative impact of legal activism is its unusualness. Unless judge practices patience, each judge could turn into the law himself and issue dealt by him are indicative of his fancies leading a more complex structure and confusion in the legal fraternity. guide them concerning how to do their most essential capacities and resolve their troubles, and that the Court could just direct the experts to complete their obligations as per what has been doled out to them by law.
Equity A.S. Anand previous Chief Justice of India, in an open address advised that with a view to see that legal activism does not progress toward becoming “legal adventurism”, judges should be watchful and self trained in the release of their legal capacities. The most exceedingly bad consequence of legal activism is unusualness. Unless judges practice patience, each judge can turn into a law unto himself and issue headings as indicated by his own fancies, which will make confusion.