New Delhi, April 15 -- It is time law colleges and universities formally incorporated ancient legal philosophy contained in the Vedas and epics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata into the curriculum, Supreme Court justice Pankaj Mithal said, emphasising that students should be taught about concepts of justice and equity not as principles borrowed from the West but ideas embedded in India's ancient legal reasoning.
"They contain deep reflections of justice, equity, governance, punishment, reconciliation, and moral duty," he said at the legal conclave organised by the NLIU, Bhopal on April 12, to mark 75 years of the Supreme Court. P8
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