文档介绍：Reportable IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL OF 2015 (@ SLP(C) NO. 14918 OF 2009) Krishnamoorthy ... Appellant Versus Sivakumar & Ors. ...Respondents J U D G M E N T Dipak Misra, J. In a respectable and elevated constitutional democracy purity of election, probity in gove rnance, sanctity of individual dignity, sacrosanctity of rule of law, certainty and sustenance of independence of judiciary, ef ficiency and acceptability of bureaucracy, credibility of institutions, integrity and respectability of those who run the institutions and prevalence of mutual deference among al l the wings of the State are absolutely significant, in a way, imperative. They are not only to be treated as essential concepts and remembered as glorious precepts but also to be practised so that in the 2 conduct of every individual they are concretely and fruitfully manifested. The crucial recognis ed ideal which is required to be realised is eradication of criminalisation of politics and corruption in public life. When criminality enters into the grass-root level as well as at th e higher levels th ere is a feeling that ‘monstrosity’ is likely to wither away the multitude and eventually usher in a dreadful fe ar that would rule supreme creating an incurable chasm in the spine of the whole citizenry. In such a situation the generation of today, in its effervescent ambition and volca nic fury, smothers the hopes, aspirations and values of tomorrow’s generation and contaminate them with the idea to pave the path of the past, possibly thinking, that is the noble tradition and corruption can be a way of life and one can get away with it by a well decorated exterior. But, an intervening and pregnant one, there is a great protector, and an iving one, on certain occasions and some situations, to interdict –“The law’, the mightiest sovereign in a civilised society. 2.