Justice Bhuyan went on to say,
“An intolerant mind, by its very nature, is at odds with the spirit of the Constitution. It is a manifestation of another form of violence.”
He cautioned that intolerance begins to undermine the constitutional framework when disagreement or dissent is no longer treated as a legitimate difference of opinion, but as something to be “silenced, rejected or punished”.
“The ability to live with disagreement is therefore not merely a social virtue. It is the very essence of a liberal constitutional democracy,” he said.