The SC in 1995 ruled that "no precise meaning can be ascribed to the terms `Hindu', 'Hindutva' and 'Hinduism': and no meaning
in the abstract can confine it to the
narrow limits of religion alone, excluding the content of Indian culture
and heritage"
· Classifying Hindutva as a way of life of the people in the sub-continent, the court dismissed the idea of equating the abstract terms Hindutva or Hinduism with the "narrow fundamentalist Hindu religious bigotry"
The SC had also held that "the mere fact that 'Hindutva or Hinduism' are used in a speech would not bring it within the penal provisions of subsection (3) or (3A) of Section 123 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, which defines a corrupt practice as "the appeal by a candidate or his agent to vote or refrain from voting on the ground of his religion".
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· Classifying Hindutva as a way of life of the people in the sub-continent, the court dismissed the idea of equating the abstract terms Hindutva or Hinduism with the "narrow fundamentalist Hindu religious bigotry"
The SC had also held that "the mere fact that 'Hindutva or Hinduism' are used in a speech would not bring it within the penal provisions of subsection (3) or (3A) of Section 123 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, which defines a corrupt practice as "the appeal by a candidate or his agent to vote or refrain from voting on the ground of his religion".
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