Consider the following statements : 1. The 44th Amendment to the Constitution of India introduced an Article placing the election of the Prime Minister beyond judicial review. 2. The Supreme Court of India struck down the 99th Amendment to the Constitution of India as being violative of the independence of judiciary. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

States that the 43rd Amendment repealed provisions added by the 42nd Amendment 'to curb judicial review', listing Articles such as 32A, 144A, 226A and 228A as examples of such curbs.

A student could infer the pattern that the 42nd added court‑exclusion provisions and then check whether the 44th followed that pattern or reversed it (i.e., removed such provisions) by cross‑referencing which specific articles the 44th affected.

Explicitly says the Janata Government 'restored the pre‑1976 position' through the 43rd and 44th Amendments by repealing Articles inserted by the 42nd, and lists Article 329A among those repealed.

Since Article 329A (named) was among the 42nd's insertions that were repealed, a student could look up what Article 329A had done (e.g., whether it barred judicial review of certain election disputes) to assess whether the 44th introduced such a bar.

Notes that a 1975 Act (contextually the 38th Amendment era) 'kept the election disputes involving the Prime Minister and the Speaker of Lok Sabha outside the jurisdiction of all courts', showing that earlier amendments attempted to place certain election matters beyond judicial review.

A student can use this as background to ask: did the 44th replicate, undo, or create new exclusions of election disputes (compare the language and articles before and after the 44th)?

Gives a specific example of the pattern: the 38th Amendment made certain emergency proclamations immune from judicial review, and the 44th later deleted that immunity—showing the 44th tended to remove judicial‑immunity provisions introduced earlier.

From this example of the 44th removing immunity, a student could infer the 44th's general direction (restorative) and so investigate whether it instead introduced any new bar on judicial review for Prime Minister election disputes.

Records that the 42nd Amendment substituted Article 74(1) (reworking executive‑advice provisions) as part of broader 42nd efforts to alter executive/constitutional arrangements—illustrating the 42nd's pattern of constitutional changes that later amendments addressed.

Use the example of 42nd's active insertion of new articles to consider whether the 44th was an inserting/amending amendment or primarily a repealing/restorative one, and then check the list of articles the 44th actually added.