India’s Supreme Court has issued a landmark ruling opening more than 200 controversial laws to judicial review.

Judges led by the chief justice closed a loophole that has kept some laws from their scrutiny in a part of the constitution called the Ninth Schedule.

The Ninth Schedule was created in 1951 to help protect progressive laws on land reform and ending feudalism, but critics say it has since been misused.

Only laws passed after April 1973 could be challenged, the Supreme Court said.