Supreme Court of India
Jasbir Singh v. Vipin Kumar Jaggi and Ors.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the opinion that no principle of interpretation requires a statutory provision to be broken down to the words which constitute C it and then after defining each word individually weld them together to arrive at the meaning of a phrase.
Judgment, page 15
From the headnote
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985-Section 64- lmmunity from prosecution-Power-Exercise of-Whether permissible after rejection of application u/s. 307 Cr.P. .-Held, permissible, the power can be exercised at any time during the course of trial but before the judgment is delivered-Criminal Procedure Code, 1973-Sections 307 and 311. Criminal Procedure Code, 197 3-Sections 321 and 307-Distinction between. Interpretation of Statutes-'Meaning of a Phrase-Arriving at of-Words take colour from the context in which they are used-Provision should not be broken down towards, and after
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Where later benches applied it
- 2013 C.B.I. v. Ashok Kumar Aggarwal & Anr.
- 2021 Arun Kumar Jagatramka v. Jindal Steel and Power Ltd. & Anr.
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