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KULDIP SINGH, T. K. THOMMEN, S. R. PANDIAN, R. M. SAHAI, P. B. SAWANT, M. H. KANIA, B. P. JEEVAN REDDY, A. M. AHMADI, M. N. VENKATACHALIAH
Indra Sawhney – Appellant
Versus
Union Of India – Respondent
JUDGMENT
B. P. JEEVAN REDDY, J. —(For himself and on behalf of M. H. Kania, C.J. and M. N. Venkatachaliah, A. M. Ahmadi, JJ.) (Majority view):- Forty and three years ago was founded this republic with the fourfold objective of securing to its citizens justice, liberty, equality and fraternity. Statesmen of the highest order - the like of which this country has not seen since - belonging to the fields of law, politics and public life came together to fashion the instrument of change - the Constitution of India. They did not rest content with evolving the framework of the State; they also pointed out the goal and the methodology for reaching that goal. In the preamble, they spelt out the goal and in parts III and IV, they elaborated the methodology to be followed for reaching that goal.
2. The Constituent Assembly, though elected on the basis of a limited franchise, was yet representative of all sections of society. Above all, it was composed of men of vision, conscious of the historic but difficult task of carving an egalitarian society from out of a bewildering mass of religions, communities, castes, races, languages, beliefs and practices. They knew their country well. They underst
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