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contribution to the cause of justice is the concept of natural justice, which is based on two fundamental principles : (i) No one would be his own judge for his own cause, and that a judgement should be unbiased and impartial, (ii) Both sides of the case should be heard and that no one should be condemned unheard. On close analysis, both the principles implicitly refer to the attitude of anekānta. Further, if he hears only one party and leaves the other party unheard, his approach would be ekāntika. Again thus, anekānta is the essence of both the principles. A person accused of murder could be hanged, or given life sentence and could also be acquitted, this underlines anekāntika approach.' 5.20 Solution of Many Present Day Problems through
Anekānta
The present trend of increasing number of nuclear families has been considered as main cause of stress among the teen agers. The entire responsibility of the family is laid on the shoulder of husband and wife in a nuclear family. When we ponder the business organizations the rat race for acquiring more and more money by hook or crook, has led to the deterioration of the graph of morality. .'.
In present scenario, comfort oriented outlook, absence of commitment towards one's duty, lack of mutual help, lack of compassion, lack of universal brotherhood, lack of openmindedness, lack of proper management in all the fields has led to total disaster. Due to terrorists attacks, serial bomb blasts incidents of rape, kidnapping, hijacking etc., a kind of the feeling of insecurity is increasing in the minds of all. Everyone feels that they are unsafe. In the business market also sudden changes, ups and downs in the values of shares, economic recessions, etc. are really the situations when many businessmen
I T.U. Mehta. Syâdvāda and Judicial Process. in "Multi Dimensional
Application of Anekāntavāda”. Varaṇasī: P.V.RS., 1999, p. 154.
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