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2018 Supreme(Mad) 1904

S.M.SUBRAMANIAM
V. K. Jayarathinam – Appellant
Versus
Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu, Revenue Department – Respondent


Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioners: Mr. R. Malaichamy
For the Respondents: Mr. A. Asokan

ORDER :

Mahatma Gandhi said, “there is no human institution but has its dangers. The greater the institution the greater the chances of abuse. Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused. The remedy, therefore, is not avoidance of democracy, but reduction of possibility of abuse to a minimum”.

2. “The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within”.

3. Dr. Ambedkar said, “I do not want that our loyalty as Indians should be in the slightest way affected by any competitive loyalty whether that loyalty arises out of our religion, out of our culture or out of our language. I want all people to be Indians first, Indians last and nothing else but Indians”.

4. The lis on hand is one such case where few greedy people are infringing the rights of the citizen at large. This Court has made an attempt to minimise the infringement and damage caused on account of the greediness of few men. Equal protection of the fundamental rights of all other citizen, in general, is also a constitutional duty of the Consti
















































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