Key Highlights
- Nagarathna, in a postscript to a judgment, observed that corruption stems from mutual greed and envy over material assets.
- She said material covetousness can be avoided by developing and enhancing a “spiritual bent of mind”.
- “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,” Justice Nagarathna wrote in her separate opinion.
- The Bench, also comprising Justice K. V.
