It would look as if, after a general clause saying that the State shall not discriminate, we give instances wherein the State shall not discriminate by using the words ‘In particular’. As a matter of fact it is not so. After the words ‘In particular’ that clause refers to access to shops, etc. That is not a case where the State has the power to discriminate. Therefore it should read as a separate clause. That is why I have suggested that the words ‘In particular’ should be removed and it should form a separate clause as 9(1a) thus: “No citizen shall, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex or any of them be subject to any disability,……..”.
