Courts have duty that anti corruption laws has to be interpreted in such a fashion so as to strengthen the fight against corruption.
Today, corruption in our country
not only poses a grave danger to the
concept of constitutional governance,
it also threatens the very foundation
of Indian democracy and the Rule of
Law. The magnitude of corruption in
our public life is incompatible with
the concept of a socialist, secular
democratic republic. It cannot be
disputed that where corruption
begins, all rights end. Corruption
devalues human rights, chokes
development and undermines justice,
liberty, equality, fraternity which are
the core values in our preambular
vision. Therefore, the duty of the
Court is that any anticorruption law
has to interpreted and worked out in
such a fashion as to strengthen the
fight against corruption. That is to
say in a situation where two