total denial of
social, economic and political justice to the people, by
emasculating liberty of thought, expression, belief, faith
and worship and by abjuring commitment ... whatsoever. This will serve to bring out
the point that a total emasculation of the essential
features of the Constitution is, by the ratio
preamble and the Parliament has no power to abrogate or emasculate those basic elements of fundamental features. The building of a welfare State, the learned ... wide, it did not comprehend the power to totally abrogate or emasculate or damage any of the fundamental rights or the essential elements
Delhi Transport Corporation vs D.T.C. Mazdoor Congress on 4 September, 1990
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claim to be an institutional “third
gender”. Among Hijras, there are emasculated (castrated, nirvana) men, non-
emasculated men (not castrated/akva/akka) and inter-sexed
Additional Commissioner Of Income-Tax ... vs Surat Art Silk Cloth Manufacturers ... on 19 November, 1979
Maneka Gandhi vs Union Of India on 25 January, 1978
Equivalent citations: 1978 AIR 597
place in the Constitution, they should not be allowed to be
emasculated in their application by a narrow and constricted
judicial interpretation. The courts should
provision, warrants no such truncation. Such a narrow
meaning may emasculate a necessary protection. There
are only two primary queries involved in this clause that
Mrs. Maneka Gandhi vs Union Of India (Uoi) And Anr. on 25 January, 1978
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Kesavananda Bharati Sripadagalvaru ... vs State Of Kerala And Anr on 24 April, 1973
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