The petitioner an employee of the Government Railway Department complained that a circular authorising the deduction of a contribution from him to the National Security Fund in the absence of objection by him infringes {1) his Fundamental Right of freedom of thought, conscience and freedom (Article 10, 14(1) (e) of the Constitution) because the money is to be used to buy arms and weapons which will be employed in the destruction of human life and violence which is repugnant to the tenets of the Buddhist faith and belief which he…
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AIYATHURAI THADCHANAMOORTHI ATTORNEY GENERAL AND OTHERS VADIVEL MAHENTHIRAN V. ATTORNEY GENERAL AND OTHERS |1978 1SLR 154
The applicants in both applications had petitioned this Court under Article 126 of the Constitution of an infringement of a fundamental right by executive or administrative action. They alleged in their petitions that the acts, complained of constituted a violaton of the guarantee afforded to them in terms of Article 11 of the Constitution. (As both applications were similar in nature, in that both petitioners had alleged a violation of Article 11 of the Constitution, and as the officers against whom the allegations were made were the Inspector of Police…
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