CJI : we proceed on this basis that the Court was supreme executive authority and post 1951 therefore, the membership of the Supreme Executive Body is no longer defined by religion. You could be of any religion to be a member of the court.

Dhavan: that my lord is a consequential amendment from the Constitution.

CJI: no not really you may still have today even the managing committee of an education institution where the entirety of the managing committee consists of Parsi, Zoroastrians, Christians etc...

Dhavan: this significant, your lordships was right in going into the statute itself