Steno Patna Civil Court Steno Dictation No. 729

The Supreme Court today (on July 10) adjourned a Public Interest Litigation filed by former Rajya Sabha MP Dr. Subramanian Swamy to delete the words Socialist & Secular from the Preamble to the Constitution of India to August. While doing so, Justice Sanjiv Khanna also said that so far as the word Secular was concerned, there are a number of judgments of this Court holding that it is a basic structure of our Constitution. As far as socialist is concerned, probably we have given our own definition to the term socialist. We have not gone by a proper dictionary definition, he added. Considering that there are three petitions on the same issue and the petitioner counsel in one of the pleas sought for accommodation, the Court ordered the matter to be re-listed in the week commencing August 12.