The cardinal values successful the Preamble of the Constitution — justice, liberty, equality, and fraternity — person been derived from dharma and not the French Revolution, said Supreme Court Justice N. Kotiswar Singh, astatine the 10th day lawsuit of the School of Law, VELS Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies (VISTAS), successful Pallavaram, connected Saturday.
Mr. Singh said, “When we drafted the Constitution, did we get these expressions [fundamental values] from the French Constitution, history, revolution?... Many radical deliberation that, yes, we did so. But I say, without immoderate hesitation, we did not borrow... Justice is based connected Indian tradition, concept, doctrine — based on dharma. Dharma is not religion, not puja successful temple, it is simply a mode of starring a righteous life.” He added that, in Tirukkural, it is said that justness is bully lone erstwhile it acts impartially careless of class, a 1,000-year-old thought of equality. He besides recalled that Hindu kings allowed Jews to physique synagogues, Parsis recovered refuge successful India during the Arab concern of Persia, and Muslims had settled connected the Malabar Coast earlier the Mughals, which indicates fraternity and liberty prevailed for galore years successful the country. He mentioned that the Keeladi survey altered the position that the Harappan civilisation was the oldest.
In his statesmanlike address, Chancellor of VELS University Ishari K. Ganesh said the School of Law began with 90 students successful 2015, and present had much than 2,000 graduates registered arsenic advocates.
Supreme Court Justice R. Mahadevan said artificial intelligence, integer forensics, cyber law, online quality resolution, and technology-driven contracts volition regularisation the state successful the coming decades.
Chief Justice of Madras High Court Manindra Mohan Srivastava spoke connected the captious relation of the Rule of Law, and the transformative powerfulness of ineligible education.
The invited code was rendered by Preetha Ganesh, Vice-President, VELS Group of Institutions. The ceremonial was attended by Justice M. Nirmal Kumar, Justice G.K. Ilanthiraiyan, Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy, and Justice R. Kalaimathi, Vice Chairman of the Bar Council of India S. Prabhakaran, Chairman of the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry M.S. Amalraj, and erstwhile Member of the Law Commission of India S. Sivakumar. Prizes were fixed to students who won the inter-college moot tribunal competitions.
