K. RAMA SWAMY, J.

( 1 ) CHIEF Justice P. B. Gajendragadkar in his preface dated March 16, 1971 to Kashinath Triambak Telang, Endowment Lectures titled as "secularism and the Constitution of India" delivered by him, poignantly portrayed that "without secularism no community can come to terms with modernism and unless the whole of the Indian community comes to the terms with modernism, obscurantism and fanaticism will continue to pose a grave danger to our democratic way of life". He emphasised that Indian democracy will not be able to achieve its objective of establishing a new social order based on social equality and economic and political justice unless the whole of the indian community accepts the doctrine of secularism without any mental reservation and makes it a part of its life individual and collective. In the absence of new social order, secularism will remain merely an academic doctrine and would not serve the purpose of bringing about a complete social harmony amongst all the constituents of the Indian community. The present case has presented the need of the above problem and the part of the State in its play in bringing in to fruition of the concept of secularism in new