335 CPC] If the grammatical construction leads to some absurdity or some repugnance or inconsistency with the rest of the instrument, it may be departed from so as to avoid that absurdity, and inconsistency. So understood, the definition would include the spaces in the cloak rooms of the Imperiol Hotel with which we are concerned. [Vacher (1913) AC 107]. It would be pertinent to point out that this statement is made by Jaibir much after the incident, when, naturally, the common intention had ceased to exist.

In the instant case, however, the error of confusion made by the High Court could not invalidate its order since the grounds of detention, characterised by the High Court as recitals of fact, read together, were in no way ambiguous, indefinite or irrelevant to the object of the detention, namely, the maintenance of public order and did not deprive the detenu of his right of representation. 5(2)(a) of the Abolition Act, before its repeal by the Bombay Personal Inams Abolition Act, 1952 (Bombay Act 42 of 1953), and based his alternative claim thereon.

Raja Nainar, [1958] INSC 121; AIR 1959 SC 422, pp. Explaining why great caution is necessary LORD MOULTON further observed: "There is a danger that it may degenerate into a mere judicial criticism of the propriety of the Acts of Legislature. The defect in the frame of such a suit resulting from the omission of the deity as a party to it, cannot be remedied by the subsequent addition of the representatives of the Hindu Public as parties to it, and no effective decree could be passed against the deity in such a suit.

Registrar of Probates, (1900) AC 323, p. , "Where the language of a statute, in its ordinary meaning and grammatical construction, leads to a manifest contradiction of the apparent purpose of the enactment, or to some inconvenience or absurdity, hardship or injustice, presumably not intended, a construction may be put upon it which modifies the meaning of the words, and even the structure of the sentence. " Newspaper establishment" is there defined as " an establishment under the control of any person or body of persons, whether incorporated or not, for the production or publication of one or more newspapers or for conducting any news agency or syndicate.

As approved by VENKATARAMA AIYAR, J. "The argument ab inconvenienti", said LORD MOULTON, "is one which requires to be used with great caution". Here again, the High Court rightly pointed out that there was no special contract in favour of the appellants as to exemption from payment of land revenue 407 nor was there any law for the time being in force (after the Abolition Act) which granted the holder of " Lal -liti" lands exemption, wholly or partially, from pay-ment of land revenue; therefore, the appellants were entitled to no protection under s.

" So, the contention put forward is that " an establishment " can only mean " an establishment " and not a group of them, even though such an individual establishment may produce or publish one or more newspapers. , Gajendragadkar, Das Gupta and Shah, JJ. Bachittar Singh, [1955] INSC 38; AIR 1955 SC 830]. The Rent Controller had no power to fix any standard rent in respect of them. We would like to refer to the judgment of this Court in Mohd.

Having given the matter my best consideration I have not been able to find any reason why the words used in the definition should not have their plain meaning given to them. ' x x x x x Consideration of hardship, injustice or absurdity as avoiding a particular construction is a rule which must be applied with great care. 409 Held (per Sinha, C. 9 of the Imports Control Order does not give unbridled authority to cancel a licence nor is there any scope for arbitrary action in this regard in view of the provision of cl.

Similarly, a construction giving rise to anomalies should be avoided. 61,282 was made up of two kinds of remuneration, namely, (1) remuneration for services rendered by the assessee family in the floatation and financing of the said Company and (2) remuneration for the personal services of the said B. State of West Bengal[2] wherein this Court held: At this juncture, let us discuss as to whether the disclosure/ confessional statement (Mark A) made by appellant Jaibir in another case would be relevant to prove the charge of conspiracy.

(2) Learned counsel also relied on s. 10 of the Order which amply fulfils the requirement of natural justice. These spaces are, in my view, rooms in an hotel and excluded from the operation of the Act. On this ground alone it would not be admissible. The definition may comprise within its scope chains or multiple units, but even so, the establishment should be one individual establishment producing or publishing a chain of newspapers or multiple units of newspapers.

I therefore come to the 379 conclusion that a room in an hotel within the definition is any room in a building in the whole of which the business of an hotel is run. We have to interpret statutes according to the language used therein, and though occasionally the respective consequences of two rival interpretations may guide us in our choice in between them, it can only be where, taking the Act as a whole and viewing it in connection with existing state of the law at the time of the passing of the Act, we can satisfy ourselves that the words cannot have been used in the sense to which the argument points".

Pearson, (1857) 6 HLC 61, p. This ground is based on the definition of " newspaper establishment" found in Sec. 5(2)(a) of the Abolition Act till August 1, 1953. the constitution of several newspaper establishments as one establishment for the purpose of this definition, they would none the less be separate newspaper establishments though under common control. If such chains or multiple units were, though belonging to some person or body of persons whether incorporated or not, produced or published by separate newspaper establishments, common control would not render.