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4.2.4. The Hon'ble Supreme Court in Centre for Public Interest Litigation v. Union of India5, made the following post script observations:

"23.1 Corruption is a result of greed and envy which give rise to an unhealthy competition to be acquisitive of material assets beyond known sources of income. A person may compete with another so as to portray materialistic superiority. This may result in acquiring wealth illegally. One's attitude of greed and envy ought to be curbed and erased from one's mind, otherwise corruption and bribery resulting in acquisition of wealth beyond the known sources of income cannot be reduced nor removed from our governance. One of the ways in which such tendencies could be curbed is to develop and enhance a spiritual bent of mind resulting in detachment from materialistic possessions and thereby, inter alia, focusing on service to the Nation.