Supreme Court of India
Shiv Sagar Tiwari v. Union of India
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We are of the view that the mere fact that in the present case there is no injury to a third person and he has not come forward to claim damages, has no sequitur in so far as the tortious liability following misfeasance of public office is concerned.
Judgment, page 4
From the headnote
JUDGMENT: J U M N T HANSARIA.J. Edmund Burke stated as early as 1777: "Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist." In 1778, he observed: "An arbitrary system indeed must always be a corrupt one. There never was a man who thought he had no law but his own will, who did not soon find that he had no end but his own profit." 2. According to Francis Beanmount (1584-1616) corruption is a tree, whose branches are of an unmeasurable length, they spread everywhere, and the dew that drops from thence, hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.…
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