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That being the situation, it is also for this Court to take a fresh look and mould the existing precepts to suit the new emerging situations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He further concluded:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Where the fact is contentious, the petitioner can always collect the facts from many a source and produce such facts by way of affidavits, and the Court can render its verdict by way of independent adjudication.<\/li>\n<li>The Parliamentary Standing Committee report being in the public domain can invite fair comments and criticism from the citizens as in such a situation, the citizens do not really comment upon any member of the Parliament to invite the hazard of violation of parliamentary privilege.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Chandrachud, J, writing for himself and Sikri, J said<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs a matter of principle, there is no reason or justification to exclude the report of a Parliamentary Standing Committee from the purview of the judicial process, for purposes such as understanding the historical background of a law, the nature of the problem, the causes of a social evil and the remedies which may provide answers to intractable problems of governance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He, however, added that <em>no Member of Parliament or person can be made liable for what is stated in the course of the proceedings before a Parliamentary Committee or for a vote tendered or given.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Bhushan, J, in his detailed judgment explained <\/strong><em>that the Parliamentary Committee Reports cannot\u00a0 be\u00a0 treated\u00a0 as\u00a0 conclusive\u00a0 or binding of what has been concluded in the Report<\/em>. 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