Judgment

V. R. KRISHNA IYER, J.:- Right at the beginning, I must record appreciation of the valuable assistance given by counsel on both sides to the Court in clarifying the twilt aspects and unravelling the latent facets of what, viewed in typically isolated legal perspective, untuned to the national wave-length and unclouded by the dust -storms of politics is a humdrum case. Having regard to the obstreperous environs and mounting tensions surrounding the events following upon the judgment of the Allahabad High Court, it must be stated to the credit of Shri Palkhivala and Shri Shanti Bhushan that in their suave submissions they have shown how sound and fury only help thwart the thought-ways of law and extra-legal tumults can be walled off from the Court hall. The arguments have been largely legal and their merits have to be weighed in judicial scales. What, perhaps in a certain view, are not strictly pertinent to the stay proceedings have, however, been adverted to at the bar, inevitably and understandably, but within marginal limits, if I may say so, because the proceedings in the Halls of Justice must be informed, to some extent, by the great verity that the broad sweep of human