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
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
Mrs. Maneka Gandhi vs Union Of India (Uoi) And Anr. on 25 January, 1978
Equivalent
limited interest for her in the proper-
ty. But that would virtually emasculate sub-section (1),
for in that event, a large number of cases
place on the language of
Article 23 an interpretation which would emasculate its
beneficient provisions and defeat the very purpose of
enacting them. Article
Shamsher Singh & Anr vs State Of Punjab on 23 August, 1974
Equivalent citations: 1974
Maru Ram Etc. Etc vs Union Of Lndia & Anr on 11 November, 1980
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